China has agreed in principle to resume trade with India through Shipki-La in Kinnaur: Himachal govt

Shimla, in principle, August 24 (PTI) China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi’nin said to India, Himachal Pradesh’s proposal to continue trade through Shipki-La in the Kinnaur Region.

Trade was suspended in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemi.

Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, the government government, the Indian Government to complete the border trade of China (Himachal Pradesh), Lipulekh (Uttarakhand) and Nathu La (Sikkim) in a statement published here, said the statement.

“The Himachal government’s efforts to continue trade with China through Shipki-La (Kinnaur) gave encouraging results. He said.

The statement, “This breakthrough, the Union Government’s historical Indo-Tibet trade route to revive the re-revival of the Union Government Prime Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’nun because of the personal intervention”, the Union Government “official seizing the issue of restarting trade”.

The state government would now discuss the issue as the Union’s Ministry of Commerce and Kodal had completed formalities.

The Prime Minister emphasized that Shipki-La, who was once a branch of the legendary silk route and officialized as a border trade point of 1994 as a border trade point of the Indian-China, played a vital role in the trans-Himalaya economic and cultural stock exchanges.

In addition to the trade, the state government said that through Shipki-La, Kailash Mansarovarar Yatra received a positive response to the restarting.

The state government stressed that the Shipki-La road, which was connected to Darchen and Mansarovar through Gartok, is relatively shorter on the Tibetan side.

Himachal Pradesh has a road connection to Shipki-La through Rampur Bushahr and Pooh, which enables the communication sent to the Union Government to develop the necessary basic camps and support the supportive infrastructure for the investment.

In a letter to CM, the Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that after a five-year gap, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra continued through Lipulekh Pass (Uttarakhand) and Nathu la Pass (coin) and that the controversy with China continues to add as an additional way.

The state government is hopeful that these initiatives will not only revive the traditional border trade, but also to open new ways for tourism, cultural change and economic development in Himachal Pradesh.