CHINA and India have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border, India’s government said on Thursday.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Thursday on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Laos.

During the talks the two top diplomats stressed the need for an early resolution of outstanding issues along the disputed Line of Actual Control, the long Himalayan border shared by the two Asian giants.