The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said that India categorically rejects the “so-called unilaterally defined” Chinese interpretation of the Line of Actual Control of 1959 in Ladakh.
“India has never accepted the so-called unilaterally defined 1959 Line of Actual Control,” the ministry said in a statement. “This position has been consistent and well known, including to the Chinese side.”
The statement came after a report in the Hindustan Times quoted a Chinese foreign ministry statement saying that China abides by the Line of Actual Control as proposed by Premier Zhou Enlai to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in a letter dated November 7, 1959 – a position that New Delhi has consistently rejected since it was first spelled out 61 years ago.
“Firstly, China-India border LAC is very clear, that is the LAC on November 7, 1959. China announced it in the…