“As we have made clear, the state of the relationship at the end of the day will reflect the state of the border. You can’t have a tense, high-friction border and have great relations in all other parts of life. It doesn’t work that way,” Subrahmanyam said on Thursday, during a summit organised by Indian media organisation the Hindustan Times.
“The expectation that we will somehow contain it in a narrow sense and not allow it to affect the rest of the life, I think that is not realistic,” the Indian minister also said.
“They are deployed. We are deployed. There are discussions going on by an integrated team on both sides… We are now coming close to two years, where the assumptions, understandings and agreements of the border areas have question marks against them,” remarked Subrahmanyam, expressing worry that troops had been "amassing" at the border.