India asks China for damages
India has demanded from China “full compensation” for the damage to Indian life and property by intruding Chinese troops near Tsaskur in Ladakh on September 19 last. The demand was made in a note handed to the Chinese Embassy here [New Delhi] on November 26 and made public to-day [November 29]. The note, which was in reply to China’s October 2 note, said “China’s responsibility for the death of the three Indian personnel is by no means over with the handing over of their bodies.” Charging it with “distorting facts,” the note said China had attempted to “evade responsibility” for kidnapping and killing the three Indian civilian personnel.
Indo-Ceylon talks
Ceylon’s External Affairs Ministry sources to-day [Nov. 29] denied that there was any deadlock in the talks concerning the implementation of the Indo-Ceylon agreement of 1964. The sources were commenting on a local Press report which had said that negotiations between India and Ceylon for the repatriation of Indian citizens in this country have deadlocked. The sources said that there were certain points in these negotiations, as in all negotiations, which needed to be clarified. These were expected to be clarified shortly, they said. The newspaper Sun had in a report on Saturday [Nov. 27] said that pending the enactment of legislation for the conferment of Ceylon citizenship, Ceylon had urged India to agree to (1) commence immediately repatriation of Indian citizens who have registered themselves as such with the Indian High Commission after the pact was singed in October last year (2) agree to the opening up of registers for the registration of persons of Indian origin who wish to acquire Indian or Ceylon citizenship in terms of the pact, and (3) to announce a plan for the rehabilitation of Indian citizens in India.
