A day after India announced reaching an agreement with China on patrolling along the lac Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday said as of now “we are trying to restore the trust” and both sides will have to “reassure each other” to achieve this.
He was speaking at an interaction session here after delivering a lecture hosted by defence think-tank USI.
India on Monday announced it has reached an agreement with China on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. This is seen as a major breakthrough in ending the over four-year-long military standoff ahead of a likely meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia this week.
“As far as we are concerned, we were looking at… We want to go back to the status quo of April 2020. Thereafter, we will be looking at disengagement, de-escalation and normal management of And, this normal management of the LAC will not just start there. There are phases in that also,” the Army chief said.