Guwahati: India reiterated its firm rejection of China’s ongoing attempts to rename places in Arunachal Pradesh, asserting that the northeastern state will always remain an integral part of the country.
In a statement issued by Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, India denounced China’s persistent efforts to rename places in Arunachal Pradesh as “senseless.”
The statement emphasised that assigning invented names will not change the reality that Arunachal Pradesh has always been and will continue to be an integral and inalienable part of India.
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The Ministry’s response came shortly after Beijing released a fourth list of 30 new names for various places in Arunachal Pradesh, part of its effort to standardise geographical names in Zangnan, the Chinese term for Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims as part of south Tibet.
The list was published on Sunday by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs on its official website.
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