New Delhi: India and China on Saturday held talks of the 12th corps commander level for a breakthrough in a stand-off at several friction points along Lach.
The 12th round of the corps commanderial talks, led by 14 Corps of Commander of LT-Gen PGK Menon & South Xinjiang District Head, which began at 10:30 a.m., finally finished at 7:30 a.m.
on Saturday on the Chinese side of the Chushul-Moldo meeting , Previous round talks were held on April 9 India and China had escaped from the edge of Lake Pangong in February this year, after extensive talks.
The previous source said there was now a “positive indication” in a series of lower level military talks through hotlines and others mean that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “agreed” to complete the release of troops that were jammed at Pointing Points (PPS) 15, 17 and 17A in the Hot Area Springs-gorry la.
PLA has consistently prevented the patrol of Indian forces in the ‘Bottleneck’ Department, which was 18 km in what India understood to become its territory, from going to PPS-10, 11, 11a, 12 and 13 of their traditional, region since April year then.
The 15-month military journey has survived with both parties each deploying more than 50,000 troops, supported by tanks, howitzers and surface-to-air missiles, along the border in East Ladakh.