"We firmly reject such attempts": India clarifies stance on renaming of places in Arunachal Pradesh by China
MEA) official spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, on Tuesday clarified India's stance on renaming of places in Arunachal Pradesh by China. Jaiswal called the move a senseless attempt and said that India rejects such claims.
He said, «China has persisted with its senseless attempts to rename places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. We firmly reject such attempts. Assigning invented names will not alter the reality that Arunachal Pradesh is, has been, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India.”
China had released a fourth list of 30 new names of various places in Arunachal Pradesh amid Beijing's stepped-up assertions in recent weeks to re-emphasise its claim over the Indian state. India has been rejecting China renaming places in Arunachal Pradesh, asserting that the state is an integral part of the country and assigning „invented“ names does not alter this reality.
China's repeated attempts
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs released the fourth list of standardised geographical names in Zangnan, the Chinese name for Arunachal Pradesh which Beijing claims as part of south Tibet, state-run Global Times reported on Sunday.
The official website of the ministry posted 30 additional names for the region. Set to take effect from May 1, the implementation measures stipulate in Article 13 that «place names in foreign languages that may harm China's territorial claims and sovereignty rights shall not be directly quoted or translated without authorisation,» the report said.
The Chinese Civil
