India and China resume direct flights in October after a five -year ban on

India and China will restart direct flights between countries this month, said the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared, at another stage to links that are gradually normalized.

There has been no direct flight between the two countries since 2020, after the fatal classes of troops at their shared Himalayan border.

But in the past year, Delhi and Beijing have worked in reconstruction links, in particular by taking measures to defuse tensions on the border.

On Thursday, the largest budget airline in India, Indigo, said that it would restart direct flights between the cities of Kolkata and Guangzhou from October 26.

In a statement published on Thursday, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the resumption of thefts “would facilitate more people’s contacts between the two countries and contribute to” the progressive normalization of bilateral exchanges “.

India and China share a poorly defined border which measures more than 3,440 km (2,100 miles) long and overlapping territorial allegations.

In 2020, troops from the two countries clashed in the Galwan river valley, leaving at least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers who died.

It was the first fatal confrontation between the two parties since 1975 and led to freezing links.

But in the past year, Beijing and Delhi have taken measures to gradually reintegrate the effiloged relationship.

High civil servants of the two parties held several series of discussions and meetings.

In October of last year, India and China agreed with patrols to defuse tensions along the disputed Himalayan border.

This year, China began to allow Indian pilgrims to visit certain places of religious importance in what it calls the autonomous region of Tibet while India has restarted visa services to Chinese tourists and agreed to resume discussions to open the border trade through designated passes.

India’s embryoning relations with the United States compared to the punishing prices of President Donald Trump also provided momentum to the links of Delhi-Beijing.

In August, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Delhi, where he said that India and China should be “partners” rather than “adversaries”.

Later the same month, the Chinese ambassador to India Xu Feihong qualified the United States as “tyrant” to impose steep rates on India and other countries.

In August, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to China for the first time in seven years for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a defense summit. He also met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit, and the two reiterated their commitment to normalize the links of India China.

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