“Perhaps the best thing I can say… is that we are encouraging both parties to engage in dialogue on the issues on the border and sort it out between them,” Boris Johnson said.
London| Describing the escalation in eastern Ladakh as “a very serious and worrying situation” which the UK is closely monitoring, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom called on India and China to engage in dialogue to sort out their border issues.
He gave his first official statement speaking at his weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
When asked by Conservative Party MP Flick Drummond about the dispute between a “Commonwealth member and the world’s largest democracy on the one side, and a state that challenges our notion of democracy on the other” and it’s implications for British interests, the UK PM said the escalation in eastern Ladakh is “a very serious and worrying situation”, which the UK is “monitoring closely”.
“Perhaps the best thing I can say… is that we are encouraging both parties to engage in dialogue on the issues on the border and sort it out between them,” Boris Johnson said.
On Tuesday there was a “mutual consensus to disengage” in the top military talks between India and China on the Chinese side of the border to discuss the Galwan face-off and other points of conflict. The talks were held “in a cordial, positive and constructive atmosphere,” said the army sources.
The sources said, the details for disengagement from all friction areas in eastern Ladakh were discussed and will be taken forward by both sides. Lieutenant General-level were held at Moldo on the Chinese side of Chushul.
The last time a meeting at this level was held was on June 6, when India and China agreed to pull back troops in attempts to de-escalate after weeks of tension and build-up. Disengagement began on both sides after that meeting, the Chinese pulled back troops, followed by the Indians.
But on June 15, a fight broke out between the two sides in the worst-ever border confrontation between the Indian and Chinese armies since 1967.
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