India-China Face-Off Over Doklam Resolved Through Diplomatic Maturity Without Losing Ground: Sushma

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New Delhi:External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj said on Wednesday that the India-China face-off over Doklam was resolved through "diplomatic maturity without losing any ground" and status quo has been maintained. Answering to a question in the LokSabha,Swarajsaid that the main objective of the informal summit between Prime Minister NarendraModi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Wuhan was to ensure mutual comfort, mutual understanding and mutual trust between the two leaders and all the three objectives have been achieved.

"We have resolved the Doklam issue with diplomatic maturity without losing any ground. There is no change in the status quo (on the ground). There is not an iota of change. The face off at sight has been resolved on August 28, 2017," she said during the Question Hour.

The external affairs minister said the Wuhan informal summit was held without any agenda and without having any objective to discuss any specific issue. Before the summit, the foreign ministers of the two countries decided that the leaders should not be restricted to any specific issue, she said.

"The decision to host Wuhan was taken not to resolve any issue but to create a conducive environment. Three main objectives were to ensure mutual comfort, mutual understanding and mutual trust. In all the three objectives, we have achieved success," she said.

Swaraj said as a follow-up to the Wuhan summit, the Chinese defence minister is coming to enhance military cooperation while the foreign minister will arrive later this year as part of efforts to enhance people-to-people contact. ‘