LAC stand-off: India, China hold 12th round of military talks, focus on disengagement in Gogra, Hot Springs

The 12th round of Corps Commander-level talks are taking place at Moldo border point on Chinese side of LAC in eastern Ladakh

The senior military commanders of India and China met on Saturday to discuss ways to resolve the 15-month-long stand-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

The meeting started at 10:30 am after the Indian Army delegation led by its 14 Corps commander Lt-General P G K Menon reached Moldo across the LAC. The delegation of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was led by its commander in charge of the South Xinjiang Military District. The meeting continued till 7:30 pm.

The two sides discussed a proposed deal to end the stand-off at Gogra and Hot Springs along the LAC. Neither New Delhi, nor Beijing, however, made public the outcome of the talks till late in the evening.

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It was the 12th round of talks between the military commanders of the two sides since the stand-off started in April-May 2020 after the Chinese PLA sought to unilaterally alter the status quo along the LAC – the de facto boundary between the two nations – and the counter-deployment by the Indian Army to resist the move.

The Indian Army and the Chinese PLA had earlier mutually withdrawn frontline troops from the face-off points on the northern and southern banks of Pangong Tso between February 10 and 21.