New Delhi/ Moscow: Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishanker met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow on Thursday in a big push for holding talks to resolve border issues. These two Ministers are meeting held to discuss with the tension escalating along the LAC since May and amid fresh eruption in the last week.

According to the sources, the nearly two hour meeting held on the sidelines of Shanghai Co-operation organization meeting choose to train its focus on taking immediate steps to de-escalate the situation and return to the negotiating table. According to sources the Indian side laid great emphasizes on the need to maintain peace and tranquility in the mountainous region. As has been stated in the past, New Delhi asserted that its forces have never made any attempts to change the status along the LAC. The meeting comes close on heels of an interaction between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe.

The two countries, at the meet, agreed on a five-point plan to resolve the prolonged border face-off in eastern Ladakh that included abiding by all existing agreements and protocol on management of the frontier, maintaining peace and tranquility and avoiding any action that could escalate matters.

Indian troops “scrupulously followed all agreements and protocols,” the Foreign Ministry told Beijing at the meeting that lasted for nearly two hours, adding: “The presence of such large concentration of (Chinese) troops was not in accordance with the 1993 and 1996 agreements and created flash points along the LAC. The Chinese side has not provided a credible explanation for this deployment”. The immediate task, “to prevent any untoward incident in the future”, is “to ensure a comprehensive disengagement of troops in all the friction areas,” India told China, sources said, as New Delhi stressed that an “urgent resolution of the current situation was in the interest of both nations”.

In an official statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry said Beijing “is willing to support enhanced dialogue between the frontier troops on both sides to resolve specific issues”. “Wang outlined China’s stern position on the situation in border areas, emphasising that the imperative is to immediately stop provocation such as firing and other dangerous situations that violate the commitments made by the two sides,” reads the statement. “It is also important to move back all personnel and equipment that have trespassed. The frontier troops must quickly disengage so that situation may de-escalate,” the statement further said.

“What China and India need right now is cooperation and not confrontation, and mutual trust, not suspicion. When the situation gets difficult, it is all the more important to ensure the stability of the overall relationship and preserve mutual trust” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.