New Delhi: The two-day India-China talks, held under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs, are being held to discuss issues pertaining to the maintenance of peace and tranquillity in border areas.
The meeting was mandated to discuss ways to prevent incidents like the recent standoff in Ladakh that cast a shadow on the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to New Delhi last month.
Sources said the government was taking several steps to improve infrastructure along the Sino-Indian border, especially in Arunachal and Kashmir.
On Tuesday, the home minister reviewed the situation along the 3,488 km-long border with China.
China had on Wednesday reacted to India’s plans to construct a road network along the McMahon line in Arunachal Pradesh and expressed hope that India will not take any action which may complicate the situation before a final settlement is reached to end the boundary dispute.
“We still need to verify the specifics. The boundary issue between China and India is left by the colonial past. We need to deal with this issue properly,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lie had told a media briefing in Beijing on Wednesday.
He had reacted to comments by the MoS for home affairs Kiren Rijiju stating that plans are afoot to construct a road network along the international boundary.
