India announced on Monday that it reached agreement with China on the resumption of military patrols along their disputed border in the Himalayas.

India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes ahead of an expected meeting between the countries’ leaders on the sidelines of a summit in Russia.

Ties between hostile neighbours hit a new low four years ago after 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed in a deadly clash in the Himalayas