News Desk
Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders held talks on Monday to resolve a months-long, tense standoff along their disputed border in the mountainous Ladakh region.
Details of the talks, held on the Chinese side in the Moldo area facing the Indian-controlled Ladakh region, weren’t immediately disclosed.
For the first time, a senior Indian foreign ministry official also participated in the military-level meeting, said an Indian official.
Monday’s military-level talks come less than two weeks after the two nations’ foreign ministers met on September 10 and agreed that their troops should disengage from the tense border standoff, maintain proper distance and ease tensions.
The foreign ministers did not set any timeline for the disengagement of the tens of thousands of troops, backed by artilleries, tanks and fighter jets, that have been in the region since the standoff began in May.
The standoff in Ladakh escalated in June to the deadliest violence between the sides in decades — a clash on a high ridge between soldiers using clubs, stones and their fists. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed.
