The announcement of the pact arrives just before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Russia for the BRICS summit, where he may engage in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines.

Ever since the border standoff began, India and China have had several rounds of negotiations to mitigate the immediate problem both at the military as well as diplomatic levels.

India on Monday announced it has reached an agreement with China on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh, in a major breakthrough in ending the over four-year-long military standoff ahead of a likely meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia this week.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have agreed to a pact on military patrols along their disputed border in the Himalayas after a long-running standoff between the two countries that began in 2020, India’s foreign ministry said on Monday.

By Krishn Kaushik, Fayaz Bukhari and Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India and China have reached a deal on patrolling their disputed frontier to end a four-year military stand-off, the Indian foreign minister said on Monday,

China and India agreed to allow each others’ troops to patrol the disputed border between the two countries, a significant step toward ending a four-year stalemate as leaders from both nuclear-armed nations possibly meet at a BRICS summit this week.

India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India’s top diplomat has said. Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on “disengagement and resolution of issues in these [border] areas that had arisen in 2020”.