MILITARY TALKS LAST 16 HRS
NEW DELHI: India and China held extensive deliberations on expanding the disengagement process in eastern Ladakh at the 10th round of the military talks that lasted around 16 hours, sources said on Sunday.
The Corps Commander-level talks at the Moldo border point on the Chinese side of the LAC began around 10 am on Saturday and ended at 2am on Sunday, they said.
The sources said the focus of the talks was to take forward the disengagement process in friction points like Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang in eastern Ladakh.
However, there was no official word on the talks so far.
In the talks, India is learnt to have insisted on a faster disengagement process in areas like Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang to bring down tension in the region.
On Saturday evening, sources had said bringing down the tension in the region was the broad priority of the talks. India has all along been maintaining disengagement at all the friction points was necessary to de-escalate the situation in the region.