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Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Doraiswami is successful Tibet to interact with section officials arsenic good arsenic jointly reappraisal arrangements made for the Indian pilgrims to the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra. This is his archetypal sojourn to Tibet aft taking complaint successful May.
Ambassador Doraiswami and colleagues from the Embassy arrived successful Lhasa connected Thursday (June 12, 2026) connected a archetypal sojourn to the Tibet Autonomous Region to jointly reappraisal arrangements made by section authorities authorities for Indian pilgrims connected the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra, a societal media station by the Embassy said.
The pilgrims are scheduled to get aboriginal this month. “The envoy met Zhao Peng, vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, who provided a elaborate briefing connected the facilities and preparations for the pilgrims,” it said.
He aboriginal attended a meal hosted by Zhao Peng. Mr. Doraiswami, who took implicit arsenic Ambassador aboriginal past month, has been interacting with the elder Chinese Foreign Ministry officials connected the bilateral issues.
The yatra, which is organised by the Ministry of External Affairs, was suspended initially successful 2020 due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently due to the fact that of the military standoff betwixt the 2 sides connected the Line of Actual Control (LAC) successful eastbound Ladakh.
It resumed successful June past twelvemonth aft the first batch of Indian pilgrims arrived astatine Manasarovar Lake successful Tibet aft a five-year hiatus.
The resumption of the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra was the archetypal inaugural taken by some countries past twelvemonth aft the revival of bilateral ties pursuing the gathering betwixt Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping astatine Kazan successful Russia successful 2024.
