Complete Ladakh disengagement for normal ties: Doval to Wang

During an hour-long meeting, India's national security adviser Ajit Doval called for working in the same direction and resolving outstanding issues as quickly as possible.

Published on: Mar 25, 2022, 12:52:23 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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During the meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, national security adviser Ajit Doval stressed the need for complete disengagement on Line of Actual Control (LAC) to allow the bilateral relationship to take its natural course, according to people familiar with the matter. Making the point that continuation of the present situation is not in the mutual interest, Doval said that restoration of peace and tranquillity will help build mutual trust and create enabling environment for progress in relations, people cited above said.

NSA Ajit Doval with State Councilor Wang Yi at PMO this morning.

Wang Yi met Doval ahead of his scheduled meeting with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar. India's top security official also highlighted the need to continue positive interactions at diplomatic and military levels for the restoration of peace and tranquillity, a prerequisite for the normalisation of ties.

Doval asked Wang to ensure that the actions by China do not violate the spirit of equal and mutual security. During an hour-long meeting, he called for working in the same direction and resolve outstanding issues as quickly as possible.

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The Chinese side invited NSA to visit China to take forward the mandate of special representatives working on the India-China boundary resolutions. Wang and Doval are special representatives for China and India, respectively. The national security adviser responded positively to the invitation and stated that he can visit only after immediate issues are resolved successfully.

Soon after the meeting, Wang went to meet Jaishankar for wide-ranging talks at Hyderabad House. The Chinese foreign minister is in Delhi for the highest-level meeting yet after the ties were strained following the military standoff at LAC nearly two years ago.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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