External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj after meeting with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi said that China would begin withdrawing its troops to its normal positions from September 26th.
She further said that India-China relations had gone through a "bad phase", but now, things were on the mend.
The foreign minister-level talks were held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive here today, but foreign ministry-level talks have been going on all day yesterday, with Swaraj hopping from one meeting after the other.
On her list are almost a hundred dignitaries that she will be meeting during her ten-day trip. A punishing schedule for many, but the ever smiling, petite lady packs a punch, as was obvious from her meeting with her Chinese counterpart.
The message has been delivered with no ambiguity that it can no longer be business as usual unless China withdraws to original positions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had to face a credibility issue that while he was entertaining the Chinese President, there were border transgressions happening on the northern front.
Tanvi Madan, a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, says that China has lost a great opportunity in this grave error of judgment.
The transgression at the border goes against the grain of President Xi Jinping's vision of an Asian dominance, as this would fuel mistrust and suspicion about China's intentions.
Though not a single bullet has been fired, the cease-fire line on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has been violated 334 times from January to August this year. China claims that India has violated the LAC 410 times.
India and China's bitter territorial dispute goes back several decades with small incursions occurring frequently across the Line of Actual Control, the de-facto border that runs 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) across Ladakh.
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