Overview

• Minister Kirti Vardhan Singh told Parliament that China has held about 38,000 sq km of disputed Indian territory since the end of the 1962 war.
• He traced eight secretary-level border talks from 1981 to 1987 following Foreign Minister Huang Hua’s visit to New Delhi in June 1981.
• The minister highlighted the 1988 Rajiv Gandhi visit that launched a joint working group which conducted 15 rounds of boundary talks through 2005.
• He said Special Representatives appointed in 2003 laid the groundwork for the 2005 guiding-principles agreement and a consensus framework reached in December 2012.
• Singh noted that eight more SR rounds have been held, the most recent in Beijing on December 18, 2024, yet a final boundary settlement remains elusive.