The disengagement announced on Monday came after a long and in-depth conversation between National Security Advisor (NSA) oval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday night where they decided to de-escalate the two-month long stand-off in Ladakh, even as China continued to claim its soldiers were “safeguarding territorial sovereignty” throughout the Galwan clash on June 15.
” The 2 Unique Agents concurred that both sides need to take guidance from the consensus of the leaders that upkeep of peace and harmony in the India-China border locations was important for the more advancement of our bilateral relations and that 2 sides ought to not permit distinctions to become disputes,” said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a release on Monday afternoon. It described the discussion as “frank and extensive”. The phrase that “distinctions need to not become disagreements” has bee