During the assembly, the 2 nations are scheduled to carry discussions on varied points together with bilateral commerce, power, border disputes and COVID-19 help.
Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali on Thursday embarked on a three-day visit to India throughout which he’ll attend the sixth assembly of Nepal-India Joint Commission and focus on all the gamut of relations, together with COVID-19 cooperation and border disputes, together with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar.
Mr. Gyawali is the senior-most political chief from Nepal to visit India after Prime Minister Okay.P. Sharma Oli triggered a border row final yr by publishing a brand new political map that confirmed the three Indian territories – Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh – as a part of Nepal.
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The Joint Commission is the best mechanism between the 2 nations to debate all the gamut of bilateral relations.
During the assembly, the 2 nations are scheduled to carry discussions on varied points together with bilateral commerce, power, border disputes and COVID-19 help.
The Joint Commission assembly “will focus on the entire gamut of Nepal-India bilateral relations, together with commerce, transit, power, boundary, COVID-19 cooperation, infrastructure, connectivity, funding, agriculture, tourism, tradition, amongst others,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned in an announcement earlier.
During his visit, he can even meet with the high-level dignitaries of India, the international ministry mentioned right here.
Mr. Gyawali is being accompanied by Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Poudyal and Secretary on the Ministry of Health and Population Laxmi Aryal, based on officers.
After Nepal launched the map final yr, India reacted sharply, calling it a “unilateral act” and cautioning Kathmandu that such “synthetic enlargement” of territorial claims won’t be acceptable to it.
India mentioned that Nepal’s motion violated an understanding reached between the 2 nations to resolve the boundary points via talks.
The bilateral exchanges that had stalled because of the bitter boundary dispute had been reset within the later a part of 2020 with a sequence of high-level visits, as New Delhi emphasised that it sees itself because the Himalayan nation’s “foremost good friend” and improvement accomplice.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s maiden visit to Nepal in November was largely geared toward resetting bilateral ties. Mr. Shringla met Prime Minister Oli and different prime political brass and emphasised that India and Nepal are on the identical web page and share the identical imaginative and prescient.
Mr. Shringla’s journey adopted earlier ones by Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane, and a whirlwind tour by Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief Samant Kumar Goel to Kathmandu in a bid to fix ties. Senior BJP chief and the celebration’s head of the international affairs division Vijay Chauthaiwale additionally visited Nepal in early December.
