We recognize Arunachal as Indian territory for past 6 decades & oppose China's claims over it, says US

NewsBharati    02-Oct-2020 13:54:11 PM
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Washington DC, October 2: Slamming China over its illegal claim on Arunachal Pradesh, the United States extended support for India and said that it has recognized the state of Arunachal Pradesh as India's territory for nearly six decades and strongly opposes any unilateral attempts of advancing claim over it.
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"For nearly six decades the US has recognized Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory. We strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by incursions, by military or civilian incursions across the established line of actual control,” US Senior State Department official said during a Foreign Press Center briefing.
 
"For the disputed boundaries, all we can say is that we encourage India and China to use their existing bilateral channels to discuss those and not resort to military force," said the official.
 
The US supports India over the Arunachal Pradesh border dispute with China comes after Beijing provoked India once again saying it has never recognised Arunachal Pradesh and called it an as “part of China's s south Tibet region”. Moreover recently, China has said it does not recognise the union territory of Ladakh claiming that India had “illegally” established the UT of Ladakh and opposed infrastructure development in border areas.
 
The statement comes amid strained India-China ties over a boundary dispute. The two sides have earlier held a series of diplomatic and military talks to defuse the standoff but no concrete breakthrough has been achieved yet.
 
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