Arunachal part south Tibet, Clam china again

Guwahati: China on Monday

once again claimed that Aruna

chal Pradesh is partof its terri

tory in south Tibet region even

as it denied having any knowl

edge on the five missing youths

of the frontier state who were

allegedly abducted by the PLA.

"China has never rog:

nizedsocalled #AunachalPra

desh," which is China's south

Tibetregion, and we have node

tails to release yet about ques-

tionon #ndian army sending a

message to PLA about five mis

Sing Indians in the region: Chi

nese FM spokesperson Zhao Li

jian." the Chinese staterun dai-

lx Global Times, said in a tweet.

On Sunday Union minister

of state for sports and Aruna-

chal MPKiren Rijiju had tweet

ed that the Indian Army is wait

ing fora response to its message

to Chinese PLA on the alleged

abduction of the five youths,

who, their family members

claim, have been abducted byy

Chinese PLA ffom near the bor

der in Upper Subansiridistrict.

"The Indian Army has al-

ready sent a hotline message to

the counterpart PLA establish-

ment at the border point in Aru

nachal Pradesh. Response is

awaited," Rijiju had tweeted a

dayafter the Arunachalgovern-

ment launched a ground probe

at Nacho circle in the district,

the home to the five youths, to

verify the messages on the so

cial mediaby their family mem-

bers about their abduction.

On Saturday the district po

lice authorities sent a team

from the district headquarters

at Daporijo to Nacho, situated

120 kmaway towards north. The

five youths, who were engaged

by the Army as porters, had

gone to the border area. Two of

their friends, who managed to

retuned home, told villagers

that the five have been abducted

from Sera-7area an Army pa

trolling area located on the bor-

der about 12 kmfurther north of

Nacho.

China often claims that

Arunachal is part of its south

Tibet region and registers offi-

cial objection every time the

Prime Minister or any other

Union minister visits the fron-

tier state, particularly on its

statehood day

In2009, thenexternal affairs

minister SM Krishna had said

in the Rajya Sabha that China

did not endorse the Country

Partnership Strategy 2009-12 for

India in the board of the Asian

Development Bank on the

ground that the proposed India

CPS involved technical assist

ance funding for the Flood and

River Erosion Management

Project in Arunachal Pradesh,

which China claims is its terri-

tory The same year Google sat-

ellite maps had showed areas of

Arunachal in Mandarin lan

guage rather than Hindi or En-

glish, effectively making them

appear to be partof Chinese ter-

ritory Google later rectified the

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