New Delhi, June 23 (TIWN) Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday described the India-China face-off in Ladakh as a full blown crisis and hoped that mature diplomacy and decisive leadership will guide the government's action in protecting India's territorial integrity.

Sonia Gandhi made this remark in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, party's highest decision-making body, which met on Tuesday to discuss the India-China face-off and the issue of Nepal.  The CWC meeting started after paying homage to all the 20 Indian soldiers, who died on June 15 fighting Chinese forces in Galwan Valley. "CWC pays homage to Colonel B. Santosh Babu and our brave jawans (soldiers), who laid down their lives by making the supreme sacrifice. All CWC members rise to observe two minutes silence in their memory," Congress national media in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a tweet.