India, China hold 16-hour-long talks; disengagement from Gogra heights, Hot Springs and Depsang discussed

The tenth round of Corps commander level talks between India and China lasted for 16 hours, and ended at Moldo on the Chinese side of LAC around 2 am today.

Key Highlights

• Tenth round of Corps commander level talks between India and China lasted for 16 hours

• Ended at Moldo on the Chinese side of LAC around 2 am today

• Both sides discussed disengagement from friction points including Gogra heights, Hot Springs and Depsang plains: Army sources

New Delhi: The tenth round of Corps commander level talks between India and China lasted for 16 hours and ended at Moldo on the Chinese side of LAC around 2 am today.

As per the Army sources, both sides discussed disengagement from friction points including Gogra heights, Hot Springs and Depsang plains.

This development comes after both sides completed the disengagement process from the north and south banks of Pangong Lake.

Disengagement from Gogra-Hot Springs, Depsang plains next on agenda?

The disengagement of troops of the Indian Army and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from Pangong Tso was reached after sustained negotiations at the military and diplomatic level.

“This agreement was reached after several rounds of sustained negotiations at the military and diplomatic level,” Anurag Srivastava, MEA spokesperson had said in a press briefing. He further said that the next steps post disengagement has been “clearly spelt out” by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during his speech in the Parliament.

While the tenth round of Corps commander level meeting is over no date has been set for the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs.

No date set for India-China WMCC meeting: MEA

On Friday, after months of denial over casualties in border confrontation with India, China officially revealed the names and details of its four soldiers killed in the Galwan Valley in June 2020.

“China on Friday unveiled, for the first time, names and detailed stories of four martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the border confrontation with India in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, to commemorate their sacrifice for defending national sovereignty and territory,” said Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) mouthpiece Global Times in a tweet.

On Saturday, China accused the Indian media of hyping Chinese casualties from the clash and failing to understand their “sincerity and kindness” and slammed New Delhi for exaggerating the figure at a time Beijing was mourning the deaths of their soldiers.