Marking LAC key to halting border transgressions, India tells China

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India has made it clear to China that agreeing on a mutually acceptable Line of Actual Control (LAC) is the only solution to the problem of border transgressions. Beijing is not in favor of a LAC.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar who met his Chinese counterpart Chang Wanquan, a General with the People’s Liberation Army, explained India’s stand on LAC, saying the process of “actually marking” the LAC is essential for proper border management. “Without that everything goes by perceptions, which has caused problems sometimes,” he said.

Parrikar also expressed unhappiness over China’s move to block a United Nations resolution on Pakistan based Masood Azhar Azar, accused of involvement in the Pathankot attack. “On the UN issue, we think it (Chinese action) is not in the right direction. We have taken it up with them,” Parrikar told Beijing based Indian journalists.

India has also expressed strong reservations over security risks thrown up by China’s Silk Road program in Pakistan, and the Maritime Silk Road plan, which if successful, would give it access to the Indian Ocean, said Parrikar.

He also said that the planned hotline between top military officials of the two countries would become operational in the coming months. The decision to enhance communication with a military-to-military hotline was taken over a year back.

The two neighbors have also decided to open more border points for commander-level negotiations to avoid border skirmishes besides the ones that have been agreed on, the minister said. At present, there are five border points operational including two in Arunachal Pradesh and two in Ladakh.

Chinese officials assured Parrikar that construction in Azad Kashmir as part of the Silk Road program in Pakistan was not READ MORE AT :> http://www.indiandaily.in/marking-lac-key-halting-border-transgressions-india-tells-china/