The Defence Ministers of India and China are not going to meet in the Russian capital on Wednesday. The ministers of many different countries are going to attend and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the victory day parade in Moscow.
In the ongoing India and China clash there have been news spreading that the Defence Ministers of both India and China will meet during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the victory day parade.
A spokesperson of Defence Ministry confirmed that the Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh will not be meeting the Chinese Defence Minister during their visit to Moscow on Wednesday.This confirmation by the ministry spokesperson came after Chinese media had been reporting news of the India and China ministry is going to happen. The Chinese media had been reporting news of a bilateral meeting and saying that it is on the cards and it might happen.
India and China are in hardened positions since the clash between them in the Galwan Valley where Chinese troops attacked and killed 20 of our Indian soldiers. These attacks came in the middle of the night and the Chinese PLS troops violated all the de-escalation pacts between them and also the mutual agreement of a peace plan. Indian soldiers who were at the Line of Action control to ensure that the mutual planning goes smoothly, but that was not the case for the Chinese troops.
India has been consistently sending a message to Beijing that the PLA troops of China should vacate the posts in the Galwan valley as it comes within the Indian Territory. Both the China and India came to a status quo regarding the situation in Ladakh in May, but China did not stand by its end of the bargain and attacked soldiers killing 20 of them.
The government also conveyed the same message to China, that the Chinese troops should back down as the Galwan valley comes under the Indian territory in a 11 hour long meeting on Monday.
There is going to be a marathon meeting between the leaders of the military and Chinese media news backed by the State reported on their channel that Indian Defence minister, Rajnath Singh and Chinese State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe are expected to meet in Moscow.
Though Rajnath Singh is not going to meet the Chinese Defence minister, but he met the Russian Defence minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov. They had a quick meeting on the delivery of military platforms like the S-400 missile Defence system and also to know the supply and assurance of critical spares. They had a meeting where they were going to discuss bilateral cooperation and regional issues. Rajnath Singh did not disclose any specifics of the meeting but said that it was both positive and productive. He also said that the ongoing contracts between Russia and India are taken forward and that all the Indian proposals have been garnered with positive responses from Russia.
The trip to Moscow by Rajnath Singh is the first official tour by an India political leader since the government announced a nationwide lockdown on March 24th due to the global health crisis.
By Deepika Agarwal
