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One Chinese violation in Ladakh

Issue No. 16 | August 16-31, 2014

The Indian Government signed Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) with China on October 23, 2013. As per article VI of BDCA, the two sides agree that they shall not follow or tail patrols of the other side in areas where there is no common understanding of the Line of Actual Control in the Indo-China border areas.

Since signing of BDCA, Chinese troops have, on one occasion, violated the provision by tailing our patrol in Eastern Ladakh on June 2, 2014. A protest was lodged against this violation in the flag meeting held on July 15, 2014, according to the Defence Minister Arun Jaitley who gave this information in a written reply to Anand Rao Adsul and Dharmendra Yadav in the Lok Sabha recently.