Antony’s visit enhance strategic cooperative : China
Beijing: China on Monday said Defence Minister AK Antony’s visit has given both countries an opportunity to enhance their “strategic cooperative partnership” and jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas through increased military-to-military coordination.
Hua said, “We hope that in future the two sides will take Antony’s visit as an opportunity to enhance military-to-military interaction, jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas and create favourable environment and conditions for the enhancement China and India strategic and cooperative partnership.”
“We emphasize that the two militaries enhance coordination and cooperation and direct the relevant departments to enhance work in this regard,” she said answering a question on the outcome of Antony’s visit.
The stress on the need for maintaining peace along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) comes against the backdrop of the Depsang valley incursion incident in May when the Chinese troops had pitched their tents 19kms inside Indian territory for over three weeks.
The two sides believe that cooperation in the border areas will be of great importance for peace and tranquility in these areas, Hua said. The two sides also agreed to hold talks on China-India Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA).
