Delhi: On whether India will be able to patrol in the areas of Galwan and Depsang, EAM S. Jaishankar says, "No, you see, there are areas where, for various reasons after 2020, they had blocked us, and we had blocked them. What has happened now is that we have reached an understanding that will allow patrolling. For example, you mentioned Depsang; that's not the only place there are others as well. To my knowledge, the understanding is that we will be able to resume the patrolling that we were doing in 2020...”
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00:00I think what Foreign Secretary has said is what I can also say that for those who have not heard
00:07that that we reached an agreement on patrolling and with that the disengagement you know we have
00:18gone back to where the situation was in 2020 and we can say with that the disengagement
00:26process with China you can say has been completed. So far I would say
00:37that's as much as I can share with you. I'm sure that in due course details will come out.
00:45So will now India be able to patrol in the areas of Galwan, Debsong?
00:49No, you see there are areas which for various reasons after 2020 because they had blocked us
01:05so we had blocked them. So what has happened is we have reached an understanding which will allow
01:13the patrolling. For example, you spoke about Debsong. That's not the only place. There are
01:20other places also. So I think the understanding to my knowledge is that we will be able to do
01:28the patrolling which we were doing in 2020. Right. So what does this disengagement will
01:35finally mean and how do we now see India-China relation going forward?
01:39I think it's a good development. It's a positive development and I would say it's a product of
01:47very patient and very persevering diplomacy that you know at various points of time
01:58people almost gave up. You can say you know this has happened. So we have always maintained that
02:06on the one hand we had to obviously do the counter deployments but side by side we have been
02:14negotiating. We've been negotiating in fact since September of 2020 when I met my counterpart Mr.
02:20Wangi in Moscow at that time. So it has been a very patient process. Maybe more complicated than
02:29it could and should have been but whatever it is. The fact is if we are able as we now have
02:37to reach an understanding regarding patrolling, regarding maintaining, observing the sanctity
02:47of the LAC, then I think what it does is it creates a basis that the peace and tranquility
02:57which there should be in the border areas which there was before 2020. Hopefully we will be able
03:03to come back to that peace and tranquility and that was our major concern because we always said
03:10that if you disturb the peace and tranquility how do you expect the rest of the relationship to go
03:16forward. So we'll have to see. I mean the understanding was reached only today.