NEW DELHI, May 20: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today asked China to sit with India and clearly demarcate the boundary in Ladakh region at the earliest to ensure that any incident like the recent incursion does no recur and peace prevails along the boundary.
The state shares a large boundary with China. “We are affected by what happens. It is no secret that tourism in Ladakh has been affected by the recent incursions,” Omar said during his interaction with members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club here.
He said the incursions was nowhere near the places where tourists visit but “suddenly you have a build up in the media about the tensions between the two countries”.
“There is no demarcated Line of Actual Control, we understand that but having said that I don’t know in whose interest is that you come across, sets up camps and takes so long to go back,” the Chief Minister said.
He was replying to a question as to what message he would wish to give to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang who is on an official visit to India.
“So I think my message to them would be to please allow us to live in our parts of the region as they chose to live in their parts and please sit down with the Indian side and work out. Let us have the formal demarcation and then we can do away with these incursions,” he said.
He said tourism sector became a victim of the recent incursion incident following media spotlight. “We are hoping now that as the situation picks us, the number of tourists also will go up,” Omar said. (PTI)
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