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“It has been agreed that the Kailash Mansarovar will start in 2025, but how the yatra will start and other talks are still going on…” Jaiswal said in a press briefing on Friday. During the briefing, when asked about the resumption, the MEA spokesperson said an understanding has been reached that the yatra will restart in 2025. However, how it will resume and what would be its modalities, discussions are yet to take place on this, he said.
#WATCH | Delhi: On Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, MEA Official Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says “It has been agreed that the Kailash Mansarovar will start in 2025, but how the yatra will start and other talks are still going on…”
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He also referred to the overall constructive engagement between Indian and Chinese sides at various levels, since the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Russia’s Kazan last October. “On India-China talks, since we had the meeting between President of China and Prime Minister in Kazan, since then we’ve had engagement, constructive engagement at the level of External Affairs Minister, at the level of NSA. And Foreign Secretary also travelled to China in January where we met his counterpart,” Jaiswal told reporters in response to a query.
“So conversation and dialogue have been going on and they have been moving forward in the right direction. Several in-principle approvals or in-principle understanding have been reached, and hopefully these will go forward in the days ahead,” he said.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had met on the sidelines of G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Johannesburg in February. The two ministers had reviewed developments in bilateral ties, management of peace and tranquillity along border areas and the resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra.
The government organises the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra every year between June and September, through the two official routes of Lipulekh Pass (since 1981) in Uttarakhand and Nathu La Pass (since 2015) in Sikkim.