The United Nations (UN) has welcomed the recently-reached agreement between India and China on border patrol, hoping that it will remove hostility between the two neighboring countries.
New Delhi on Monday said it had reached an understanding as it pertained to the disputed frontier with Beijing in the Himalayas that began in 2020.
These talks between India and China have resulted in an agreement on “patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had risen in these areas in 2020”, said Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.
The UN on Tuesday said the border patrol agreement between India and China will strengthen the process of “good neighbourly relations”.
“We certainly welcome any positive engagement between the nations of China and India, and we hope that the process of good neighbourly relations will be strengthened,” UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq said in response to a question at the daily noon briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours have been strained since clashes between their troops on the largely demarcated frontier left 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers dead in 2020.
