00:00I think what Foreign Secretary has said is what I can also say that for those who have not heard
00:07that that we reached an agreement on patrolling and with that the disengagement you know we have
00:18gone back to where the situation was in 2020 and we can say with that the disengagement
00:26process with China you can say has been completed. So far I would say
00:37that's as much as I can share with you. I'm sure that in due course details will come out.
00:45So will now India be able to patrol in the areas of Galwan, Debsong?
00:49No, you see there are areas which for various reasons after 2020 because they had blocked us
01:05so we had blocked them. So what has happened is we have reached an understanding which will allow
01:13the patrolling. For example, you spoke about Debsong. That's not the only place. There are
01:20other places also. So I think the understanding to my knowledge is that we will be able to do
01:28the patrolling which we were doing in 2020. Right. So what does this disengagement will
01:35finally mean and how do we now see India-China relation going forward?
01:39I think it's a good development. It's a positive development and I would say it's a product of
01:47very patient and very persevering diplomacy that you know at various points of time
01:58people almost gave up. You can say you know this has happened. So we have always maintained that
02:06on the one hand we had to obviously do the counter deployments but side by side we have been
02:14negotiating. We've been negotiating in fact since September of 2020 when I met my counterpart Mr.
02:20Wangi in Moscow at that time. So it has been a very patient process. Maybe more complicated than
02:29it could and should have been but whatever it is. The fact is if we are able as we now have
02:37to reach an understanding regarding patrolling, regarding maintaining, observing the sanctity
02:47of the LAC, then I think what it does is it creates a basis that the peace and tranquility
02:57which there should be in the border areas which there was before 2020. Hopefully we will be able
03:03to come back to that peace and tranquility and that was our major concern because we always said
03:10that if you disturb the peace and tranquility how do you expect the rest of the relationship to go
03:16forward. So we'll have to see. I mean the understanding was reached only today.
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