Nepal prod on equality promise Foreign minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali urged India to receive and implement a 2018 report to review the entire spectrum of bilateral relations
Nepal on Friday asserted its right to sovereign equality and mutual respect while urging India to receive and implement a 2018 report to review the entire spectrum of bilateral relations that New Delhi also had signed up for during the first visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kathmandu in 2014.
A forceful case for taking forward that commitment was made by Nepalese foreign minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali during a talk given by him at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi after raising the unresolved boundary issue during his bilateral engagement with external affairs minister S. Jaishankar.
Nepal wants India to revise the 1950 friendship treaty to reflect ânew changes and realitiesâ
On the unsettled boundary issue, Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said âwe have to explore ways to settle it based on facts and documentsâ.
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New Delhi: Nepal wants India to revisit the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship in order to reflect âchanges and new realitiesâ of contemporary bilateral ties even as Kathmandu believes the outstanding issue of the boundary can be resolved through âfacts, evidences and historical documentsâ.
Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, who concluded his three-day trip to India Saturday, said despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and a âfew misunderstandingsâ that occurred in recent months, both sides were able to maintain the partnership.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted two features of the Nepal-India economic relationship: Nepal’s ballooning trade deficit, and unrestricted cross-border movement of people of both countries. Attributing the trade deficit entirely to supply-side constraints is neither accurate nor conducive to the overall health of the relationship. This brief suggests ways towards more sustainable trade relations between India and Nepal, among them, India relaxing the non-tariff measures it imposes on Nepali goods, Nepal improving its quality testing infrastructure, and a revision to the bilateral trade treaty. The brief points to the economic and security hazards of a porous border and argues that regulating it will be in both countries’ long-term interest. It highlights the need for a resolution to the territorial disputes between the two, and strict non-interference by both in each other’s internal affairs.
Nepal Foreign Minister to visit India on Jan 14 for Jt Commission meet
Sun Online Desk
8th January, 2021 06:03:30
Amid political turmoil in Himalayan nation following the dissolution of the House of Representatives, Nepal s Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali is visiting New Delhi on January 14 to participate in the sixth meeting of the Nepal-India Joint Commission at the Foreign Minister level.
Earlier, Gyawali had planned to visit New Delhi in the middle of December but due to discord and dispute in the ruling Communist Party of Nepal, the visit was postponed.
During the visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to Nepal in November end, the Indian side had proposed to hold the meeting in mid-December, but after Nepali side failed to agree on it, the meeting had become uncertain.
Nepal, India likely to ink Covid vaccine pact during Gyawali s visit to New Delhi Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu/ New Delhi, Jan. 6 Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Gyawali is all set to embark on his visit to New Delhi on January 14 to participate in the sixth meeting of the Nepal-India Joint Commission.
The two neighbours have already started exchanging the texts of at least a couple of memoranda of understanding expected to be signed during the Nepali minister s trip to the Indian capital. As one of the MoUs is related to cooperation in the health sector, some officials believe this could entail an agreement on the procurement of Covid vaccines from India.