Overview

• India and China agreed to resume structured, multi-level consultations on disengagement, de-escalation, border management and eventual delimitation along the Line of Actual Control.
• India insisted on a permanent solution to the boundary dispute through a formal roadmap aimed at bridging the trust deficit and revitalising demarcation mechanisms.
• New Delhi refused to endorse the SCO joint statement in protest over its failure to acknowledge cross-border terrorism threats.
• Rajnath Singh outlined Operation Sindoor and highlighted the April Pahalgam attack to press China for cooperation against Pakistan-backed terror networks.
• Both ministers welcomed the reinstatement of the Kailash Manasarovar pilgrimage as a confidence-building measure.