army: Army Chief Gen Pande holds talks with Bhutanese commander

Military Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Tuesday held wide-ranging talks with Royal Bhutan Military’s Chief Operations Officer Lt Gen Batoo Tshering on methods to develop bilateral navy ties amid China enhancing infrastructure round Bhutanese territory within the Doklam plateau. Officers stated the talks targeted on varied key dimensions of India-Bhutan defence cooperation and the 2 commanders reviewed the evolving regional safety state of affairs.

Lt Gen Tshering’s go to to New Delhi comes three months after Gen Pande travelled to Bhutan.

“Common Manoj Pande #COAS prolonged a warm welcome to Lieutenant Common Batoo Tshering, Chief Operations Officer, Royal Bhutan Military and mentioned methods to strengthen the #DefenceCooperation between the 2 Armies,” the Military tweeted.

The Bhutanese commander laid a wreath on the Nationwide Warfare Memorial in honour of the fallen heroes.

He was additionally accorded a guard of honour within the South Block lawns. The Doklam plateau is taken into account an necessary space for India’s strategic curiosity.

The Indian and Chinese language armies have been locked in a 73-day stand-off on the Doklam tri-junction in 2017 after China tried to increase a street in an space that Bhutan claimed belonged to it.

India had strongly opposed the development as it will have impacted its general safety pursuits. The India-China face-off was resolved following a number of rounds of talks.

In October final yr, Bhutan and China signed an settlement on a “three-step roadmap” to expedite negotiations to resolve their festering boundary dispute.

Bhutan shares an over 400-km-long border with China and the 2 nations have held over 24 rounds of boundary talks in a bid to resolve the dispute.