‘Very determined effort to stand our ground’: Jaishankar lauds military, deft diplomacy over India-China LAC pact
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Saturday credited the breakthrough patrolling agreement with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to the military and smooth diplomacy.
Responding to a question during an interaction with students in Pune, Jaishankar said, “If today we have reached where we have… One is because of the very determined effort on our part to stand our ground and make our point. The military was there (at LAC) in very very unimaginable conditions to defend the country, and the military did its part and diplomacy did its part.”
Jaishankar said that during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS in Russia’s Kazan, it was decided that the foreign ministers and National Security Advisors of the two countries would meet and see how to move forward.
However, the EAM said that it is still early for the normalisation of relations between India and China, adding that the rebuilding of trust and willingness to work together will naturally take time.
