{"id":27086,"date":"2020-06-08T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=27086"},"modified":"2020-06-08T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:27:48","slug":"rajnath-reviews-ladakh-lac-situation-with-cds-service-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27086","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath reviews LAC situation with CDS, Service Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meeting comes two days after the talks between senior military commanders to defuse the month-long stand-off.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As tensions continue, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday reviewed the situation along the China border with the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) and the three Service chiefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting comes two days after the talks between senior military commanders to defuse the month-long stand-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, official sources said the Monday meeting was routine. Mr. Singh had been holding regular consultations with CDS Gen Bipin Rawat and Army Chief Gen Manoj Naravane on the border situation and this was also part of the routine review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there is still no clarity on the next round of senior level talks, the sources said the dialogue between local commanders on the ground would continue. At the Saturday talks, which was the highest military dialogue so far to address the issue, India firmly conveyed that it wants the restoration of status quo ante of April before the stand-off began and China pull back back troops close to the LAC. More meetings are scheduled to be held both, military and diplomatic, to end the impasse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Situation stable: MFA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said the situation overall along the border was \u201cstable and controllable\u201d and the two sides were ready to engage in consultation to \u201cproperly solve the relevant issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to questions on the military level talks, MFA spokesperson Hua Chunying maintained a similar line as that of the Ministry of External Affairs. He stated that recently diplomatic and military channels of the two sides had maintained close communications on the border situation. \u201cOne consensus is that the two sides need to implement the two leaders\u2019 consensus and make sure that differences do not escalate into disputes.\u201d The two sides would work to maintain peace and tranquility along the border and create a good atmosphere, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese state Media,\u00a0Global Times,\u00a0<\/em>in a commentary on Monday quoting experts, said the current stand-off would not become another\u00a0Doklam crisis\u00a0as both sides have gained a great deal of experience from the 2017 stand-off and since then \u201call kinds of bilateral mechanisms including on military, diplomatic and local issues have been established, which has eliminated the possibility of an incident escalating into a crisis.\u201d However, it said the ongoing stand-off was not likely to end immediately, as concrete issues must still be resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With inputs from The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meeting comes two days after the talks between senior military commanders to defuse the month-long stand-off. As tensions continue, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday reviewed the situation along the China border with the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) and the three Service chiefs. The meeting comes two days after the talks between senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}