Border Standoff: China Accuses India Of Violating International Conventions

China has called the alleged trespass of Indian troops of its border near Sikkim as “very serious”, and has accused New Delhi of violating a convention signed in 1890 between Britain and China relating to Sikkim and Tibet.

“The Sikkim section of the China-India boundary has been defined by the Convention between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim and Tibet (1890),” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said on Monday. He said the crossing the defined boundary by the Indian troops has amounted to a breach of the historical convention, the UN Charter and the basic principles of international law.

Shuang claimed that the successive Indian governments have acknowledged, in writing, that it concurs with China on the boundary convention on Sikkim. He also added that since India’s Independence, the then Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on behalf of the Indian government, explicitly recognised many times that the convention defined the boundary between Xi Zang of China and Sikkim.

With inputs from ANI.