India told to get troops back across the border
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CHINA warned yesterday that the withdrawal of Indian troops was a precondition for peace in a border dispute.
China’s ambassador to New Delhi, Luo Zhaohui, said Indian troops should “unconditionally pull back to the Indian side.”
He told the Press Trust of India news agency: “The Chinese government is very clear that it wants peaceful resolution at current state of the situation, for which withdrawal of Indian troops from the area is a precondition.”
Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular press conference that Beijing had “repeatedly made such requests.” He asked: “If the Indian side refuses to correct its mistakes in a timely fashion, how is it supposed to win the trust of its neighbors?”
Geng added: “The Indian troops are currently in Chinese territory, and the matter remains unsettled.”
He urged India to show sincerity in resolving border disputes and developing bilateral ties, and create conditions for the normal development of China-India relations.
Geng said the Sikkim section of the China-India border was defined in the Convention Between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim and Tibet in 1890. Successive Indian governments had acknowledged the demarcation.
He also cited a note presented by the Indian embassy in China to the Chinese foreign ministry on February 12, 1960.
The Indian government welcomed China’s note explaining the demarcation of the border, saying Sikkim and Bhutan belonged to one side of the border while Tibet stood on the other.
It quoted a Chinese note as saying the border between Sikkim and Tibet had been officially defined, and there was no divergence or disputes in the map drawing as well as in practice.
Geng said India’s recent move violated the goals and principles of the UN Charter, and trampled on international laws.
In the early 1950s, China, India and Myanmar initiated the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, featuring mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and cooperation for mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence.
“By illegally crossing into another country’s territory, India has tread on the basic norms of international relations it had initiated itself,” Geng said.
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