China News Service, July 10, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on July 10, Hong Liang, Director of the Department of Border and Ocean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of the Department of East Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India jointly hosted Sino-Indian border affairs consultation and video The 16th meeting of the Coordination Working Mechanism. Representatives from the diplomatic, national defense and immigration departments of the two countries participated. The two sides exchanged frank and in-depth views on the recent Sino-Indian border situation and made positive progress in easing the situation on the ground.
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The two sides expressed that they will seriously implement the important consensus reached by the foreign ministers of the two countries and the special representative on the border issue, continue to properly handle the relevant issues, jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the border area, and jointly safeguard the overall situation of bilateral relations. The two sides fully affirmed the positive progress made by the frontier defense forces of the two countries in implementing the consensus reached at the military-level talks and easing the situation on the ground. They agreed to continue to maintain dialogue and consultations on the military and diplomatic channels, promote further cooling of the situation on the ground, and strengthen confidence-building measures in the border areas. Promptly and properly handle border issues to avoid the rise of differences into disputes.
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