New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday spoke on the phone and discussed the situation in Eastern Ladakh.

The telephonic conversation came in the backdrop of a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley in which both sides suffered casualties in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley.

‘Two sides should follow consensus reached by 2 countries’

“Wang said the two sides should follow the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and strengthen the communication and coordination on the proper handling of the border situation through the existing channels so as to jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border area,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

India and China should follow important consensus reached by their leaders: Wang tells Jaishankar

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) June 17, 2020

The two sides agreed to deal fairly with the serious events caused by the conflict in the Galwan Valley, jointly abide by the consensus reached at the military-level meetings between the two sides, cool down the situation on the ground as soon as possible, and maintain peace and tranquility in the border area in accordance with the agreement reached so far between the two countries, the statement said.

Wang emphasises that both sides should strengthen communication and coordination through existing mechanism to resolve differences

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) June 17, 2020

China doesn’t want ‘more clashes’ with India, said its spokesperson

Earlier in the day, China said that it does not wish to see “more clashes” with India. “From the Chinese side, we do not wish to see more clashes,” said Zhao Lijian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

“We are having communication through diplomatic and military channels. The right and wrong of this is very clear… The incident happened on the Chinese side of Line of Actual Control (LAC) and China is not to blame for it,” he added.