NEW DELHI: According to an Indian defense official on Wednesday, China and India have successfully withdrawn their forces from two confrontation locations on their disputed Himalayan border as scheduled.
A four-year military stalemate was ended last week when the nuclear-armed neighbors agreed to monitor the Ladakh frontier, opening the door for better bilateral political and commercial relations.
According to the Indian official, the disengagement that started last week is over, and the process is currently being verified.
After commanders on the ground finalize the arrangements, soldiers will start patrolling the frontier and exchange candies on Thursday as a goodwill gesture, he added. Beijing did not immediately react on the troop withdrawal.
The two most populous countries in the world have been at odds over the roughly 4,000 km of mostly unmarked border that runs over the Himalayas for decades. This tension culminated in a short but brutal war in 1962.
Twenty Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed in border confrontations four years ago.
