On Saturday, India’s defense ministry in a statement said that both India and China have agreed on neither sides taking “any further action that could either complicate the situation or escalate matters in the border areas”.
The statement came after a meeting between the defense ministers of both countries late Friday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Moscow.
India’s defense minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart from China General Wei Fenghe took part in the meeting.
This meeting marked the highest-level face-to-face political contact between India and China since tensions first flared in May and led to the border clash in Galwan Valley in June which resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers.
On 29-30 August, Indian army accused China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers of making ‘provocative military movements’ on the southern bank of Pangong Tso, across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in an attempt to alter the status quo, the Indian army had said in a statement.