03:23Indian military were seen leaving disputed territories on the border with China following the disengagement and patrolling agreement welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the recent BRICS summit in Kazan.
The footage filmed on the Leh highway near Chushul on Sunday shows military trucks driving in the direction opposite to the border.
"It is a very good step towards peace and prosperity, and we welcome this gesture of the Chinese and Indian governments," said Gatuk Dorje, a border resident. "We are happy that we can live on borders peacefully now, and we wish and pray for a better future ahead."
Modi and Xi Jinping held landmark talks on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan.
"The two leaders affirmed that stable, predictable, and amicable bilateral relations between India and China, as two neighbors and the two largest nations on earth, will have a positive impact on regional and global peace and prosperity," the press service statement read.
The Line of Actual Control (LAC) has long been a flashpoint between India and China, marked by decades of tension and occasional military clashes. Relations became particularly strained after a border clash in eastern Ladakh in 2020 that left 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese PLA soldiers dead.
The territorial dispute between China and India in the Himalayas was triggered by the specific territorial demarcation between the two countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Indian military trucks withdraw from disputed area near Chinese border after New Delhi and Beijing reach agreement at BRICS summit
Indian military were seen leaving disputed territories on the border with China following the disengagement and patrolling agreement welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the recent BRICS summit in Kazan.
The footage filmed on the Leh highway near Chushul on Sunday shows military trucks driving in the direction opposite to the border.
"It is a very good step towards peace and prosperity, and we welcome this gesture of the Chinese and Indian governments," said Gatuk Dorje, a border resident. "We are happy that we can live on borders peacefully now, and we wish and pray for a better future ahead."
Modi and Xi Jinping held landmark talks on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan.
"The two leaders affirmed that stable, predictable, and amicable bilateral relations between India and China, as two neighbors and the two largest nations on earth, will have a positive impact on regional and global peace and prosperity," the press service statement read.
The Line of Actual Control (LAC) has long been a flashpoint between India and China, marked by decades of tension and occasional military clashes. Relations became particularly strained after a border clash in eastern Ladakh in 2020 that left 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese PLA soldiers dead.
The territorial dispute between China and India in the Himalayas was triggered by the specific territorial demarcation between the two countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Indian military were seen leaving disputed territories on the border with China following the disengagement and patrolling agreement welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the recent BRICS summit in Kazan.
The footage filmed on the Leh highway near Chushul on Sunday shows military trucks driving in the direction opposite to the border.
"It is a very good step towards peace and prosperity, and we welcome this gesture of the Chinese and Indian governments," said Gatuk Dorje, a border resident. "We are happy that we can live on borders peacefully now, and we wish and pray for a better future ahead."
Modi and Xi Jinping held landmark talks on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan.
"The two leaders affirmed that stable, predictable, and amicable bilateral relations between India and China, as two neighbors and the two largest nations on earth, will have a positive impact on regional and global peace and prosperity," the press service statement read.
The Line of Actual Control (LAC) has long been a flashpoint between India and China, marked by decades of tension and occasional military clashes. Relations became particularly strained after a border clash in eastern Ladakh in 2020 that left 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese PLA soldiers dead.
The territorial dispute between China and India in the Himalayas was triggered by the specific territorial demarcation between the two countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.