India says it has reached a deal with China to ease four-year crisis at disputed border - Ties between hostile neighbours hit a new low four years ago after 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were ki

An Indian official says India and China have agreed to a pact on military patrols along their disputed border in the Himalayas.

India and China have arrived on a patrolling arrangement along their disputed frontier in the Himalayas and it can lead to disengagement and resolution of a conflict that began in 2020, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday.

The pact is part of a resolution to the four-year standoff at the contested border areas, India’s foreign ministry says.

We are closely following these developments,” a US State Department spokesperson told the South China Morning Post via email on Tuesday, adding that the US did not have details on the “reported arrangement.

India said it ended a four-year border stalemate with China, a significant step toward easing tensions and paving the way for a possible meeting between the leaders of both nuclear-armed countries at a BRICS summit this week.

India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling their disputed Himalayan border, a significant step towards conflict resolution. Historically, tensions peaked in 2020 with casualties on both sides.

After four years of heightened tensions and disrupted economic ties, India and China have agreed on a return to 2020 border patrol arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas,

India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India’s top diplomat has said. Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on “disengagement and resolution of issues in these [border] areas that had arisen in 2020”.