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00:00So, Ajitji, you have asked me basically the status of issues along the LAC.
00:06So I will repeat the same word, it is stable but sensitive, point number one.
00:10So what does it mean?
00:13That there have been series of meetings, firstly among the ministers, even the Prime Minister
00:18has met the Chinese head.
00:22Similarly, the meetings have taken place at the level of the core commander as you are
00:27aware the 22nd SHMCL took place on 21st October which finished, thereafter 5th December we
00:36had the WMCC, then 18th December we had the Special Representatives meeting.
00:43Now coming on to the Depsang and Demchok, as you are aware April 20 onwards that both
00:50sides had moved forward and stopped the other side from going to the traditional areas where
00:58they were carrying out the patrolling.
01:01So what has happened in this disengagement that both sides have agreed to go back and
01:07go back to the areas where both sides feel okay, this is where we used to come for the
01:14traditional patrolling.
01:16So that has been agreed upon and both sides have fell back.
01:20As far as the verification patrolling, two rounds have already been completed by both
01:24the sides over a period of time and both sides are quite satisfied about it.
01:29Similarly as far as the grazing ground is concerned, those grazing grounds have also
01:33been now mutually agreed upon, those have been agreed and the graziers are being allowed
01:39to go.
01:40Earlier we were not allowing them to go because we did not want any kind of an inadvertent
01:45aggravation of the situation.
01:48The second question which you have asked is about the buffer zone.
01:51Let me tell the house that there is nothing called as buffer zone.
01:55When you carry out a kind of a negotiation, then you look at what can be solved immediately,
02:03what will take some time to resolve.
02:05Where you feel that the nature or the degree of violence can be high and the fuse is short,
02:13what happens you create some distances.
02:16So when we carried out these kind of negotiations over a period of time, some places we declared
02:22as a temporary moratorium.
02:24It means that both the sides will remain back and will not go to the common areas because
02:30we still feel that if we meet at those places, the violence level may go high.
02:36So that is the terminology which is used as far as the temporary moratorium is concerned.
02:43As far as standoff is concerned, now what we have to see that what all has changed from
02:51April 20.
02:54If you look at has the terrain been doctored over a period of time, yes.
02:59Both sides have doctored the terrain.
03:01Have both sides carried out the billeting construction, the answer is yes.
03:06Both sides have carried out some stocking, deployment, yes.
03:12So therefore what it means that there is a degree of standoff.
03:17Now once you have changed all this situation after April 20, so the trust between the two
03:24countries has to have a new definition.
03:28Therefore there is a requirement for us to sit together and thereafter come to a broader
03:33understanding that how we want to kind of calm down the situation, restore the trust.
03:41So we are now looking forward for the next special representatives meeting which should
03:46take place and also the WMCC and based on the guidance given from that we will be moving
03:52forward.
03:54Your related issue was that what is happening along the complete front.
04:00So as I have told you that the core commanders have been now delegated the powers to resolve
04:07the trivial issues or the minor frictions so that they don't kind of later on become
04:14a big issue.
04:15So if they can be resolved at the lower level, that is being resolved.
04:19The timelines, timelines I can only say that India has adequate strategic patience.
04:28Coming on to the second question, that is Manas had asked for Manipur, overall perspective.
04:37The overall perspective as of today that yes, there are, if I can say that affiliations
04:46and the tribal affiliations have taken a strong line but we have to work as a whole of nation
04:53approach to make sure that the reconciliation must take place and I am very hopeful that
04:59the new governor will.