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Disengagement requires re-deployment of troops at regular posts on LAC: MEA

MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said this can be achieved only through mutually agreed reciprocal actions

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Srivastava further said the two sides had also agreed to continue their engagements both through diplomatic and military channels.

Press Trust of India New Delhi

2 min read Last Updated : Aug 28 2020 | 1:44 AM IST

A complete disengagement in eastern Ladakh requires re-deployment of troops by each side towards their regular posts on the respective sides of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India said on Thursday on the prolonged border row with China.

The spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Anurag Srivastava said this can be achieved only through mutually agreed reciprocal actions.

"Thus it is important to bear in mind that achieving this requires agreed actions by both sides," he said at an online media briefing.

The MEA spokesperson also referred to last week's talks between the two sides under the

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