India-China S Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart in Moscow amid LAC tension
Moscow/IBNS: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow as an attempt to defuse the rising tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the de facto border between the two nations.
The foreign ministers are visiting Moscow to attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting.
They had earlier met at a Russia-India-China lunch.
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The meeting comes in the backdrop of fresh tension along the LAC at the southern bank of Pangong Tso on Monday when Chinese soldiers armed with spears and rifles tried to approach the Indian forward posts.
India said Chinese soldiers, who were forced to retreat, fired shots in the air.
However, China claimed that Indian soldiers had fired warning shots after "crossing the LAC", which New Delhi firmly denied.
This attempt by China to trespass at the LAC comes after the deadly border clash that took place between soldiers of the two Asian giants at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Jun 15 night.
In the first deadly clash in a time span of over 40 years, at least 20 Indian personnel were martyred.
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