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No orders to stop construction of Damchok, India had taken up the issue with Beijing | Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao on Friday said that the Government has taken up the issue of Chinese objection
to the construction of road in Demchok area of Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with Beijing. Addressing the media in the national capital, the
Foreign Secretary said: "It has been taken up with the Chinese side during one
of the flag-meetings that we have at the ground level." Recently, Jammu and Kashmir
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah confirmed that the eight-kilometre stretch, which
was being constructed under the NREGS, had been stopped after the Chinese Army
objected to the road construction in Demchok, which is on the Indian side of the
LAC. The work was stopped in the last week of October. However, contradicting
that the construction work on the Demchok road is stopped, Nirupama Rao said:
"I am not aware of any instructions having been passed on to the people working
in that area to stop the construction of the road." In fact, Rao also downplayed
the issue by saying that it is the result of differing perceptions of the LAC.
"Let me say, that the whole issue of the differing perceptions of LAC in the area
around Demchok has been taken up at many occasions with the Chinese side," Foreign
Secretary Nirupama Rao said when asked about the recent Chinese objection. Earlier,
China had asked India to stop building activities along their disputed boundary
insisting that till this issue is settled the two countries should maintain "peace
and stability" in the border areas. "On the border issue, China and India have
disputes," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said at a news conference. Sino-India
relations are going through a rough patch , earlier both countries engaged in
a war of words over Dalai lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh. India also condemned
construction of Dam by China in the Paksitan Occupied Kashmir and the Chinese
Authorities also raised Objections over issuance of stapled visas to Kashmiris.
Off Later while addressing the council on Foreign Relations in the United States,
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had said that he failed to understand the reason
behind the assertiveness on the Chinese part. Defence Minister has also recently
expressed concerns over the Pakistan China nexus. |
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