India and China reach agreement on patrolling arrangements along the LAC, says Foreign Secretary
On 21 October 2024, in India, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced at an MEA special briefing that an agreement had been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas.
Summary
On 21 October 2024, in India, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, at an MEA special briefing on the Prime Minister's visit to Russia, said that over the last several weeks Indian and Chinese diplomatic and military negotiators had been in close contact in a variety of forums. As a result, agreement had been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas, leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020, and India would be taking the next steps on this. At the same briefing he said the PM would travel to Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, for the 16th BRICS Summit, the first summit after the first-ever expansion of BRICS at the Johannesburg Summit.
Key facts
- Date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Announced by
- Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri (MEA special briefing)
- Agreement
- Patrolling arrangements along the LAC in the India-China border areas
- Outcome
- Leading to disengagement and resolution of issues that arose in 2020
- Negotiators
- Indian and Chinese diplomatic and military negotiators, over several weeks
- Context
- Briefing on PM's visit to Kazan (capital of Tatarstan) for the 16th BRICS Summit
Practice MCQs 3 questions
On 21 October 2024, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced that India and China had arrived at an agreement on:
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Correct answer: A — Patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas
MEA transcript, 21 Oct 2024: 'agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas'.
Consider the following statements about the Foreign Secretary's briefing of 21 October 2024 on India-China border areas: 1. Indian and Chinese diplomatic and military negotiators had been in close contact over the last several weeks in a variety of forums. 2. The agreement leads to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: C — Both 1 and 2
Both are in the MEA transcript: negotiators 'have been in close contact with each other in a variety of forums' over the last several weeks, and the agreement is 'leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020'.
At the MEA briefing of 21 October 2024, Kazan, the venue of the 16th BRICS Summit, was described as the capital of which Russian republic?
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Correct answer: B — Tatarstan
MEA transcript, 21 Oct 2024: 'Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.'