India on Tuesday said the recent incident between Indian and Chinese soldiers on the bank of the Pangong Tso lake in eastern Ladakh was "not a skirmish" but a face-off which was resolved using bilateral mechanisms in place to defuse such situations.
A scuffle broke out between Indian and Chinese soldiers on the bank of the lake last Wednesday but the matter was swiftly resolved through talks between the two militaries.
The face-off had ended following delegation-level talks between the two sides.
Addressing the 100-day press conference of the Ministry of External Affairs, Union minister S Jaishankar said: "We did not have a skirmish, I want to be very clear I think there was what we call a face-off. It was resolved."
Asked if the visit of China's Special Representative for border talks Wang Yi had been rescheduled, Jaishankar said: "Often people float dates. For me no dates are dates until (Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson) Raveesh Kumar says so....There was no rescheduling. Our NSA was preoccupied so not much should be read on that."
On his remarks during his Beijing visit earlier this year, he said: "I actually said what we have done has not changed the external boundaries of India."
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