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India’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had agreed with China to an “expeditious disengagement” of troops at a disputed border area where soldiers from the two countries have been in a stand-off for more than two months.
“In recent weeks, India and China have maintained diplomatic communication in respect of the incident at Doklam,” India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement, referring to the area in the Himalayas close to the borders of China, India and Bhutan.
“On this basis, expeditious disengagement of border personnel at the face-off site at Doklam has been agreed to and is on-going,” the statement read.
However, the China's Foreign Ministry said that the Indian troops had withdrawn to the Indian side of a disputed border area where the two countries' soldiers had been locked in stand-off for more than two months.
Speaking at a daily news briefing, ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that the Chinese troops would continue to patrol the disputed Doklam region.
The move comes ahead of a summit of the BRICS nations - a grouping that also includes Brazil, Russia and South Africa - in China early next month.
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