China's Non-Observance Of Border Agreements "Disturbed" Ties: S Jaishankar

India and China were locked in a military standoff at multiple friction points in eastern Ladakh since early May last year.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that there has been a lot of concern about the India-China relationship since last year because Beijing has not observed agreements on the border issue which has "disturbed" the foundation of the bilateral relationship. "I would say for the last 40 years we had a very stable relation with China... China emerged as the second-largest trade partner," S Jaishankar said in response to a question on China-India relations at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. "But for the last one year, there has been a lot of concern about the relationship because China has not observed agreements that it had signed up to when it came to our border," said S Jaishankar, who is Moscow on a three-day visit. "After 45 years, we actually had a border incident with casualties. And peace and tranquility on the border, for any country, is the foundation of a relationship with a neighbour. So, naturally, the foundationship has got disturbed, so has the relationship," he added.