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Vacate Finger 5 area in Pangong lake: India firmly tells China

India firmly told the Chinese side to vacate finger 5 area in Pangong lake, even as disengagement at the Line of Actual Control reached a critical point.

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India firmly told the Chinese side to vacate finger 5 area in Ladakh's Pangong lake, even as disengagement at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) reached a critical point.

While complete disengagement has happened in Galwan valley, Hot Springs, the process is yet to be completed in the Gogra area, Pangong lake, for which more talks are expected to happen.

"As per media reports, both sides are building up. When build-up happens, to expect Chinese to pull back from Pangong Tso runs contrary." Former 14 Corps Commander Lt Gen PJS Pannu told WION.

While both sides are in talks for the 5th round of military talks, India has said the disengagement process is yet to be completed.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, "Some progress made towards disengagement but the process has not been completed yet."

Explaining the statement, he said, "As we have stated earlier, the maintenance of peace and tranquillity in the border areas is the basis of our bilateral relationship, we expect that the Chinese side will sincerely work with us for complete disengagement and de-escalation and full restoration of peace and tranquillity in the border areas."

The Indian statement comes even as the Chinese side on Wednesday claimed that "front-line border forces of the two countries have disengaged in most locations, and the current situation has continuously improved with eased tensions."

So far since the 15th June Galwan incident, 3 rounds of military talks on June 22, June 30 and July 14, 3 rounds of diplomatic talks--Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on June 24, July 10 and 24 and one round of  SR level talks between NSA Doval Ajit Doval and Chinese FM Wang Yi has happened.

Meanwhile, the Chinese envoy Sun Weidong, on China making new claims at LAC, said, "Northern line in Pangong lake and Chinese customary boundary is in accordance with LAC and no case of Chinese expanding its territorial claim."

He declined to answer on the Chinese casualties during the Galwan incident and said, "Understand the goodwill. We don't want to add more tensions and escalate the situation" at LAC.

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