According to defense sources, the Indian and Chinese Army’s disengagement is still ongoing in the Eastern Ladakh region’s Depsang plains and Demchok and should be finished shortly.

According to the sources, the procedure should be over shortly.

In order to begin synchronized patrols, the Indian Army hopes to finish the procedure in both sectors by October 29.

The Indian side has been trying to settle the long-running conflict and return things to as they were before Chinese aggression began in the region in April 2020.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry had said on Friday that both China’s and India’s frontier soldiers are carrying out “relevant work” in compliance with the two countries’ agreement on border-related matters.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lin Jian said the work is going “smoothly” at a news conference on Friday.

Li Jian responded, “In accordance with the resolutions that China and India reached recently on issues concerning the border area, the Chinese and Indian frontier troops are engaged in relevant work, which is going smoothly at the moment,” when asked if China and India had begun withdrawing their troops from areas of conflict.

The more than four-year military stalemate in eastern Ladakh came to an end on October 21 when India declared that it and China had achieved an agreement on patrols along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that the two nations have agreed to return to the “ground situation” on the basis of equal and mutual security during a speech on October 24 in New Delhi.

Restoring “patrolling and grazing to traditional areas” is part of this, he said.The improvement in relationships, according to Singh, is due to the “power of engaging in continuous dialogue because, sooner or later, solutions will emerge.”

“To address their disagreements in specific places along the LAC, China and India have engaged in diplomatic and military discussions. At the second Chanakya Defence Dialogue, he gave the keynote lecture and said, “A wide consensus has been reached to restore the ground situation based on the principles of equal and mutual security.”

In a previous meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the BRICS Summit in Russia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the two nations’ agreement on patrolling measures along the LAC in eastern Ladakh.

Days before the two leaders’ meeting, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that the two countries had achieved an agreement on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the border regions between India and China.

Chinese military activities in 2020 triggered the Indian-Chinese border conflict in eastern Ladakh along the LAC. The two countries’ ties were severely strained as a result of this episode, which caused ongoing tensions.

At a media briefing held on the fringes of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping “welcomed the agreement reached between the two sides through sustained dialogue over the last several weeks in diplomatic as well as military channels.”

“PM Modi emphasized how crucial it is to prevent disagreements on issues pertaining to boundaries from upsetting the calm and quiet along our borders. According to the Foreign Secretary, the two presidents agreed that the special representatives on the India-China boundary issue are essential to both resolving the issue and preserving peace and quiet along the border.

According to Misri, the two leaders also examined the current status of their bilateral ties from a long-term and strategic standpoint.

“We can go back toward the road of normalizing our bilateral ties after peace and tranquility have been restored in the border regions. Using the appropriate formal bilateral dialogue procedures, including at the level of our respective foreign ministers, officials will now explore improving strategic communication and stabilizing bilateral ties, Misri said.