India and China will once again sit down together on July 23-24 to talk about the disputed areas in the Himalayan borders of the two countries.
Chinese officials from their foreign office and the Peoples Liberation Army will be in the Indian capital later this month to meet their Indian counterparts regarding the border-security of the two giant Asian countries.
"India will also present a second draft of the border defence cooperation agreement to the Chinese soon. The Chinese side gave the first draft in March. India responded with its own draft on May 10. Then, the Chinese side gave a second draft to India in June," reported the Times of India Thursday.
The announcement of this month's meeting comes amid reports of Chinese border troops carrying away a surveillance camera put up by the Indian border police to track Chinese activities at the border.
Referring to the fresh incursions and the carrying away of the surveillance camera from an Indian post in the Chumar sector in Ladakh, senior Indian opposition leader Yashwant Sinha said that China was resorting to violations on the border with an aim to destabilize India.
"China wants to destabilise India. They appreciate negotiating with destabilised nations. India must reply to China in a similar language," said Yashwant Sinha, according to the Indian News Agency ANI.
New Delhi and Beijing recently had a diplomatic row over their disputed border following an incursion by the Chinese troops in Depsang village in Ladakh.
The diplomatic row died down after Chinese troops moved away from the Indian incursion area as a result of several army-meetings at the border and high-level talks between New Delhi and Beijing.
The two sides held the 16th round of border talks in Beijing in recent weeks.
After the border talks, the Chinese foreign ministry in a press statement said that both sides had agreed "to give full play to the existing mechanisms on border-related issues and maintain peace and tranquility in border areas before issues are resolved".
