Six Bhutanese movies were screened at the first Bhutan Film Festival held here as part of the commemoration of 50 years of diplomatic relations between India and the Himalayan kingdom.
Bhutan was firmly with India on the Doklam issue, the source quoted the top officials as telling the panel while replying to queries on the recent visit of Army Chief Bipin Rawat, NSA Ajit Doval and Gokhale to that country.
Menon, who was NSA between 2010 and 2014 in the previous UPA rule, also said there was a need for an integrated approach in managing the country's borders.
India and China resolved the 73-day tense standoff on August 28 at Doklam area after PLA stopped building a strategic road close to India's narrow Chicken Neck area connecting to NE states.
President Ram Nath Kovind, during his meeting with Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, also extended an invitation to him to pay a state visit to India during the golden jubilee year, which was accepted by the visiting dignitary.
Ram Nath Kovind, who met Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the queen and the prince at Rashtrapati Bhavan, said the security concerns of India and Bhutan are indivisible and mutual.
MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that he “would like to reiterate that there are no new developments at the face-off site and its vicinity since the August 28 disengagement”.
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay said the UN reforms would be incomplete without reforming the Security Council to reflect the changing realities of the world.
Bhutan and China have a dispute over Dokalam, a strategically key area at the Bhutan-India-China trijunction in the Sikkim sector.
Japanese Ambassador to India Kenji Hiramatsu and his colleagues have reportedly conveyed Tokyo’s position to New Delhi and Thimphu in the last couple of weeks.
India and China have been locked in a face-off in the Doklam area of the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Indian troops stopped the Chinese People's Liberation Army from building a road in the area.
On Wednesday, China’s top diplomat Wang Wenli reportedly told a visiting Indian media delegation that Bhutan has conveyed to Beijing through the diplomatic channels that the area of the standoff is not its territory.
India and Bhutan are two countries out of the 14 countries China is yet to sort out boundary disputes.
China has settled boundary dispute approximately of 20,000 km with 12 countries out of the 22,000 km and is yet to settle about 2,000 km of boundary involving India and Bhutan.
Asked about China's claim of India reducing its troops from 400 to 40 in Dokalam, Gopal Baglay refused a direct reply terming it an operational matter.
China has repeatedly said the withdrawal of troops from Doklam was the precondition for any "meaningful dialogue" with India over the festering border row in the Sikkim section of the border.
Asking India to withdraw its troops from the area, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said that India should not take take the "illegal trespass as a policy to realise its political target.
After a three-week stand-off with China on Chinese territory, India should immediately pull back its trespassing troops, the commentary by Xinhua news agency said.
China today claimed that there is no dispute with Bhutan in the Doklam area as both the countries have a "basic consensus" on the boundary.
China today said the Doklam area in the Sikkim sector has been a traditional pasture for Chinese cattle grazers over which it has historically exercised "complete and comprehensive" control.
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