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Nepal: Not a Buffer State but a Bridge
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
April 27: The Indian press widely covered the two-day seminar titled “Emerging Trends in India-Nepal Relations” held in Patna the capital of Bihar the Northern Indian State. Nepalese Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yami jointly with Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh and Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar opened the seminar lighting an auspicious oil lamp on April 26, 2008.
Nepalese Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yami said that the previous rulers had played off China against India during the cold war period, and made Nepal a buffer State. She said that from now on Nepal would act as a bridge between the two countries to benefit from the economic development of both the countries. There would be no more China card or India card to play against or for anyone.
Minister Hisila Yami was the head of the 45-member Nepalese delegation team she led to participate in the two-day seminar on "Emerging Trends in India-Nepal Relations" held in Patna, capital of North Indian State Bihar.
At a session on political dimensions, former Indian ambassador to Nepal and the current special envoy of the Prime Minister of India Shyam Saran said that no matter which political party would come to power, India was for assisting Nepal in its political and economic transformation process, as India had not favored one party or another throughout the peace process in Nepal.
Mr. Shyam Saran also has said that India has no problem of renegotiating the “Indo-Nepal Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950” according to the Indian newspaper ‘Times of India’. He also said that one round of talks between foreign secretaries of the two countries on this subject matter was held in 2001.
Nepalese Maoists’ Chairman Prachanda has been advocating for rewriting the Indo-Nepal treaty terming it as an unequal treaty.
