The talks have beenrequested by India and will be held in the Indian Border Point Meeting hut in Ladakh's Chushul-Moldo.
The standoff is the most serious since
India and China were locked in a similar faceoff in Doklam
New
Delhi: India and China will hold
military-level talks in Ladakh on Saturday, June 6, amid the border standoff
between the militaries of the two countries near eastern Ladakh.
The talks have been
requested by India and will be held in the Indian Border Point Meeting hut in
Chushul-Moldo.
India will be led by
Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, Commander of 14 Corps.
"There are positive
indications," sources said ahead of Saturday's talks.
Multiple local-level talks
by regional military commanders have not made any headway so far.
The standoff is the most
serious since India and China, who fought a brief war in 1962, were locked in a
similar faceoff in Doklam, in the eastern Himalayas, that lasted nearly three
months in 2017.
India has said the Chinese
military was hindering normal patrolling by its troops along the Line of Actual
Control or LAC in Ladakh and Sikkim, and strongly refuted Beijing's contention
that the escalating tension between the two armies was triggered by trespassing
of Indian forces across the Chinese side.
The
border tension between India and China was among a range of important issues
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on
Tuesday, the government said in a statement.
Mr
Trump claimed last week that he offered to mediate between India and China.
However, top government sources had contradicted the claim, asserting that
there had been no recent interaction between the two leaders. China also
rejected Mr Trump's offer, citing the two neighbours are capable of properly
resolving the issues through dialogue and consultation.
The
US on Monday had said it was "extremely concerned" by the Chinese
aggression against India along the Line of Actual Control. "I strongly
urge China to respect norms and use diplomacy and existing mechanisms to
resolve its border questions with India," said Elliot Engel, chief of the
US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.