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Indian Foreign Secretary Meeting With Nepalese Personalities
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 19, 2011: at the meeting held on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, foreign secretaries of Nepal and India have agreed on several matters. Foreign secretary Madan Kumar Bhattarai and his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao have agreed on setting up an integrated-border security system to control illegal trade, and start working on a railway projects. Nepal and India have an open border. The new system agreed on would help control illegal trade across the open border, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
On January 19, 2011, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has met with Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda and conveyed her government’s concern for the anti-India sentiments of his party; Chairman Prachanda in his turn has told Indian Foreign Secretary Rao that his party is not against India but wants a fresh diplomatic start after the political changes that have occurred in Nepal since 2006, and wants to rewrite uneven bilateral pacts with India according to IANS.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has also met with president of NC Sushil Koirala and former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba; they have talked about the peace process, army integration and writing of a new constitution after UNMIN has left Nepal; after the meeting with the Indian Foreign Secretary, president of NC Koirala has told the reporters that India wants to see peace, stability and progress in Nepal according to the news posted on Economictimes.indiatimes.com.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has also told the Nepalese leaders that India has no preference to any special government but is prepared to working with any government led by anybody elected by the Nepalese parliament clearly stating India has no intention in interfering in the internal matters of the Nepalis.
