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Nepal And China Agree On Setting Up Consulate General In Each Country
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 23, 2013: Nepal and China agreed to set up the office of consulate general in each other's country to cope with the growing trade and interdependence between the two countries, according to the Xinhua news of yesterday.
Once, a Chinese consulate general is set up in Nepal, this will be the China's first office of the consulate general in Nepal while the latter will have its third office of consulate general in China.
So far, Nepal has three diplomatic missions in China, Embassy of Nepal in Beijing and two consulate general offices: one each in Lhasa and Hong Kong.
While Nepal has been preparing to set up its office of consulate general in Guangzhou: China's third largest city, China has proposed to establish its office in Pokhara: a tourist hub in central Nepal.
"China has dispatched proposals for it several times in the past," a high level official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) told Xinhua Wednesday preferring anonymity.
A bilateral meeting on Sunday in Beijing will make a decision on this issue. "The establishment of an office of the consulate general in both countries will be the major agenda of discussion," Nepal's foreign secretary Arjun Thapa told Xinhua, adding the meeting will also ponder over the jurisdiction and the number of staffs in regards to the proposed offices of a consulate general.
Nepal's Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (MoCS) has been lobbying the government to propose the Chinese government for the establishment of an office of the consulate general in Guangzhou.
"Nepal's trade with China is increasing remarkably and the largest portion of trade is being carried out through Guangzhou," Himal Thapa, a former under secretary at MoCS specialized in Nepal-Sino trade told Xinhua.
