Singapore: Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Tuesday said here that India and China have a history of handling border issues and there is no reason the two countries will not be able to resolve the latest standoff.
Jaishankar made the comments during a lecture organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Indian High Commission.
"It is a long border, as you know no part of the border has been agreed upon on the ground. It is likely that from time to time there are differences," Jaishankar said, as quoted by PTI.
He was responding to questions on the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Dokalam area of the Sikkim sector at a lecture on 'India-ASEAN and the Changing Geopolitics'.
Underlining that this was not the first time that China and India had border differences, Jaishankar said, "When such
situations arise, I see no reason, when having handled so many situations in the past, we would not be able to handle it."
China and India have been engaged in a standoff in the Dokalam area near the Bhutan tri-junction for over three weeks after a Chinese Army's construction party attempted to build a road.
Doka La is the Indian name for the region which Bhutan recognises as Dokalam, while China claims it as part of its Donglang region.
Of the 3,488-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
(With PTI inputs)
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