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Ajay Banerjee

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 22

Senior military commanders of India and China today discussed setting up of additional meeting points for the two armies along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and to have a “hotline” at the Director-General of Military Operation-level (DGMO) on either side.India has such a “hotline” with Pakistan. A 15-member delegation from Western Theatre Command of People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China, is on a five-day visit (February 21-26) to India. The PLA delegation led by Major-General Zhao Jin Song, Vice-Chief of Staff of Western Theatre, met the Indian delegation led by Additional DGMO Maj-General YK Joshi, here in New Delhi today.A statement by Indian authorities today said: “Leaders of two delegations discussed the importance of having regular bilateral exchanges and additional border personnel meeting points.”India, China have five such meeting points along the un-demarcated 3,488-km LAC, the de facto boundary with India—Spanngur Gap at Chusul in eastern Ladakh, Bum-La near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh and Nathu-La in Sikkim. In the past one year, two additional points have been opened at Daulat Baig Oldie in the disputed Depsang plains in sub-sector north (SSN) of eastern Ladakh and one at Kibithoo in far-eastern Arunachal Pradesh.Sources said the Chinese side has proposed an additional meeting point in south-eastern Ladakh. The two sides also discussed modalities of a DGMO-level hotline. In April last year, when Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar undertook a five-day visit to China, the Chinese had agreed to the draft of the memorandum on establishing a hotline between the two military headquarters. The Indian Army statement said: “The two sides agreed that peace on the border is an important guarantor for development and continued growth.”

5 already in place

India, China have five meeting points along the un-demarcated 3,488-km LAC, the de facto boundary with India
In the past one year, two additional points have been opened at Daulat Baig Oldie in the disputed Depsang plains in sub-sector north of eastern Ladakh and one at Kibithoo in far-eastern Arunachal Pradesh