Volume III, Issue 5 | - May 2022

A short handout from the MEA stated that the two sides reviewed the situation along the LAC in the Western Sector and agreed to continue the discussions through diplomatic and military channels to resolve the remaining issues along the LAC at the earliest so as to create conditions for the restoration of normalcy in bilateral relations. [...] 20 km east of the LAC at Finger 8, the bridge will enable faster movement of troops between the North and South banks of the Pangong Tso.51 The kind of hype created in the media over the construction of the bridge was perhaps unwarranted. [...] During the meetings the two sides reviewed the progress made in financial connectivity through the launch of the Rupay card and the BHIM application, the STEM program which places Bhutanese youth in IITs in India and the link up of the Start Up systems in the two countries through the ‘National Knowledge Network’ of India and the ‘Druk REN Connection’ of Bhutan. [...] The ‘Vision Statement’ issued at the end of the summit reaffirmed a shared commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and called for Myanmar to implement the ‘ASEAN Five Point Consensus’. [...] Seven of the ten signatories to the “Nation-wide Cease fire Agreement” participated in the peace talks – the ‘Restoration Council of the Shan State’, the ‘New Mon State Party’, the ‘Karen National Union/the Karen National Liberation Army’, the ‘Democratic Karen benevolent Army’, the ‘Arakan Liberation Party’, the ‘Pa-O National Liberation Organization’ and the ‘Lahu Democratic Union’.