Re: “LoC cannot be accepted as final solution…PM (Manmahon) accepts it”
Secret: PM-Jiabao agree on territory swap
Very possibly in one-to-one talks between prime minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, an agreement has been reached where India will forego its claim over Aksai Chin, especially eight or nine tactically crucial peaks, while China will give up the Eastern Sector. Top officials said the agreement was informal and secret yet, and wouldn’t be contained in the documents signed between the two countries during Jiabao’s visit, but dissonance has been noted in China insisting on “respect for history” in the guiding principles of bilateral relationship-building, while India has reiterated a necessity for “accommodation of reality”.
Meanwhile, both sides have agreed for exchange of maps and disputed claims in the middle sector, and the established working principle is that disputed territories less than twenty kilometres will remain with the possessor, while larger areas will be scrutinised by the JWG on the border dispute, whose work has been decided to be expedited. The Aksai Chin-Eastern Sector swap would be strictly exchange of territories and not populations, but India has queried the Chinese side about the status of the nomadic Tibetan refugees from Aksai Chin who have stayed on in India.