Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on June 27 that he was negotiating with Admiral Don Jun, Chinese Defense Minister, on a sideline organization for cooperation in Shanghai (SCO) Defense Ministers in Qingdao, China.
Singh said he had a constructive exchange of views on questions about bilateral relations with the Chinese counterpart.
“He expressed his happiness in restarting Kailash Mansarovar Yatra after a gap for almost six years. On both sides, this positive momentum is maintained and avoiding the addition of new complexity in a bilateral relationship,” Singh said in post X.
Ministers of the Defense of the Member States of SCO, including India, were in this port city of China to participate in a two-day conclave on 25-26. June.
Chinese deduction reported that India does not require confrontation with China and it is to strengthen communication and mutual trust.
After leaving the border on East Ladakh India, it constantly claims that peace and stability along the border are the prerequisites for normalization of overall links.
The military distance in the eastern Ladak began in May 2020 and the deadly clash in the Galwan valley in June of that year resulted in a serious decline in the link between two neighbors.
Fame-off ended effectively after completion of the release process from the last two friction of the points of Demchoku and Depsang on the basis of an agreement completed on October 21st.
In December last year, NSA Ajit Doval Beijing visited and interviewed Wang Yi as part of a border dispute dialogue.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on October 23 in Kazan to decide to revive the SR mechanism and other such formats of dialogue.
The Modi-Xi meeting came two days after India and China set fire to a disconnection agreement for Depsang and Demchok.
India refused to sign a SCO proposal
India refused to support a joint statement at the meeting of SCO defense ministers in China and as a key reason to rule out concerns about terrorism.
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MEA Randhir Jaiswal spokesman confirmed that India could not agree with the final statement because it could not deal with what the new Delhi considered to be a critical regional challenge – terrorism.
“India wanted concerns about terrorism that was reflected in a document that was not acceptable for one particular country, and therefore this statement could not be accepted,” Jaiswal said.
During his address at the SCO Singh meeting, he strongly repeated the Indian policy of zero tolerance to terrorism and urged all 11 participating countries to take a unified position.
It is on both sides to maintain this positive momentum and prevent the addition of new complexity in a bilateral relationship.
“The perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of punishable terrorist acts-including cross-border terrorism-must be considered responsible and put before court,” he said.
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