BY : CNNIBN

India and China have decided to hold first ever Joint Army exercises aimed at developing bilateral Military to Military level confidence building measures.

The decision to hold joint exercises comes as a follow up of two countries claiming ‘substantial and satisfactory’ progress in discussions on Joint services issue during the just concluded visit to China.

"The dates, details and scope of the first ever joint manoeuvres between the two armies is being worked out," PTI quoted an army release.

Though, an army spokesman did not spell out the nature of Joint manoeuvres, Singh before his departure for Beijing had told PTI that the People Liberation Army was interested in conducting anti-terrorism manoeuvres.

Indian army, which has been in the thick of battling insurgencies in the country's North-East and in Jammu and Kashmir, has won international acclaim for its low intensity warfare techniques and Military officers and personnel from US and UK have held such joint exercises with Indian forces.

China, on the other hand, has never acknowledged facing any armed internal dissent, but reports do often crop of a simmering insurgency in its Muslim dominated areas of Xinjian and Chinese Turkestan provinces.