India and China will hold the seventh round of Corps Commander-level talks on Monday in Eastern Ladakh. The talks will start at 12 pm at Chushul, where nearly 50,000 troops from both sides are in a standoff position since April-May this year.
The Indian side would be represented by outgoing 14 Corps Chief Lt Gen Harinder Singh and his successor Lt Gen PGK Menon.
Talks are expected to not only take stock of the situation on the ground but also measures on de-escalation by the Chinese side.
Indian forces had taken an aggressive stand and occupied several strategic heights on the southern and northern Pangong lake area preempting Chinese attempts to take them over.
The 6th round of Indian and Chinese Senior Commanders took place on September 21, after which both sides issued a joint statement. The statement called for "earnestly" implementing the "important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries" and among other things "stop sending more troops to the frontline".
India has a clear stand that the gambit of talks must include disengagement and de-escalation from the entire Eastern Ladakh region for addressing the situation.
The transgressions in Eastern Ladakh took place in April-May timeframe while Singh had taken over the Corps in October last year.
The core security team led by the NSA has been actively involved in preemptive and thwarting Chinese bids to occupy strategic heights in the southern and northern Pangong lake area.