Rajnath holds talks with the Chinese Defence Minister in Moscow, focus on ways to ease border tension

MOSCOW/NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Gen. Wei Fenghe held talks in Moscow on Friday on ways to ease escalating border tension in eastern Ladakh, government sources said. It is the first high-level meeting between the two sides after the border row erupted along the Line of Actual Control(LAC) in eastern Ladakh in early May through External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held separate telephonic talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to resolve the standoff.

The focus of the talks between the two defense ministers was on ways to resolve the prolonged border standoff, the sources said. The meeting was requested by the Chinese defense minister, they said. Both Singh and Wei are in Moscow to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) defence ministers which took place earlier in the day. Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a bitter standoff in multiple places in eastern Ladakh. 

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News source: Economic Times

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