Doklam stand-off: India should clarify its position on the 1890 Convention
Summary: Britain had no authority to fix the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan trijunction in the 1890 Convention. Partially withdrawing from this Convention would bring clarity and consistency to India's position. The statement made by Smt Sushma Swaraj in the Rajya Sabha, on 03 Aug 2017, on the Doklam issue , quotes from the 2012 agreement between Indian and China: There is mutual agreement on the basis of the alignment of the India China boundary in the Sikkim sector as provided by the convention between China and Great Britain relating to Tibet and Sikkim signed in 1890. Now, the 1890 Convention between Great Britain and China states: The boundary of Sikkim and Tibet shall be the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the Sikkim Teesta and its affluents from the waters flowing into the Tibetan Mochu and northwards into other rivers of Tibet. The line commences at Mount Gipmochi, on the Bhutan frontier, and follows the above-mentioned water-parting to the
