New Delhi: Ahead of his expected talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, on Monday said that the situation in eastern Ladakh is ‘very serious’, which calls for ‘very very deep political conversations.’
Opining that the state of the border with China cannot be de-linked from the state of the overall relationship with the neighbouring country, Jaishankar told The Indian Express that he had written about the same in his book ‘The Indian Way’, before the Galwan incident took place.
The Minister said, calling the current standoff as of a very different order, opined that there were problems left over from history as well, that continue to overhang on the relationship.
Tensions escalated manifold along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh after the Galwan Valley clashes on June 15 in which 20 Indian Army personnel were killed in the line of duty.
Though the Chinese side did not reveal the caualties, an American intelligence report stated that there were 35 casualties.
Jaishankar is set to meet Wang Yi on September 10 in Moscow on the sidelines of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
