Nepal issued a statement on India-China border dispute and urged both its "friendly neighbours" to peacefully resolve their mutual differences. Nepal's statement read, "Nepal maintains that disputes between the countries should be resolved through peaceful means. Nepal has always stood firmly for regional and world peace." "In the context of recent developments in the Galwan Valley area between out friendly neighbours India and China, Nepal is confident that both the neighbouring countries will resolve, in the spirit of good neighbourliness, their mutual differences through peaceful means in favour of bilateral, regional and world peace and stability," it further read. Nepal's statement came days after 20 Indian Army personnel lost their lives in a violent clash with Chinese troops in Ladakh's Galwan Valley.