Tailing of Patrols in Border Areas
Government signed Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) with China on 23.10.2013. As per article VI of BDCA, the two sides agree that they shall not follow or tail patrols of the other side in areas where there is no common understanding of the Line of Actual Control in the Indo-China border areas.
Since signing of BDCA, Chinese Troops have, on one occasion, violated the provision by tailing our patrol in Eastern Ladakh on 02.06.2014. A protest was lodged against this violation in the flag meeting held on 15.07.2014.
This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in a written reply to Shri Anand Rao Adsul and Shri Dharmendra Yadav in Lok Sabha today.
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