NEW DEHLI: India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday saidthat the situation along the border with China in Ladakh was “very serous”and called for “deep conversations between the two sides at the politicallevel”, according to report published in *The Hindu*.
The ties between the world’s two most populous nations are tense sinceApril where the troops have been in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation inthe disputed region.
“If you look at the 30 years, because it was peace and tranquillity at theborder, it allowed relation to progress,” said Jaishankar while addressingan event.
India and China need to find an “accommodation”, he said.
Jaishankar is scheduled to meet his Chinese counterpart in Moscow onSeptember 10 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’sForeign Minister-level meeting.‘Indian troops fired warning shots’
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China accused Indian troops of violating a bilateral agreement and firingwarning shots in the air during a confrontation with Chinese personnel onthe disputed border on Monday.
Chinese border guards took “countermeasures” to stabilise the situation,Zhang Shuili, spokesman for the military’s western command theatre, said ina statement published by the military’s official news website early onTuesday.
The statement did not make clear what those measures were or whetherChinese troops also fired warning shots.
