China and India have made progress in their latest talks on a long-running border dispute that turned deadly last month, said a Chinese spokesperson on Wednesday.
It is said that top commanders from two sides held their fourth round of talks on Tuesday, just a month after the deadly clash between their soldiers in the Grewan Valley, where India is building a strategic road connecting the region to an airstrip close to China.
According to India, 20 of its soldiers were killed in the June 15 clash and that there were casualties among the Chinese as well. China has confirmed the casualties in its side.
“The two sides have made positive progress on pushing forward the disengagement of the front-line troops on the western section of the border and easing the border tension,” said the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying at a daily briefing on Wednesday.
Last week, India’s external affairs minister, Subrahmanyan Jaishankar said Indian and Chinese troops were disengaging from the standoff along the countries’ undemarcated border.
The two countries fought a border war in 1962 that also spilled into Ladakh. They have been trying to settle their border dispute since the early 1990s, without success.
