Nepal-India Relations Taken To New Height, Claims PM Prachanda After Recent Visit To Delhi
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 8. Nepal Prime Minister
Pushpa Kamal Dahal has asserted his four-day-long recent visit to
India has played a pivotal role to take the relationship between
the two nations to new heights.
Addressing the meeting of the National Assembly to appraise the
assembly about his the entourage of India from May 31-June 3, PM
Dahal highlighted the progress made during the visit.
"Nepal and India have very old as well as intimate relations. My
visit focused on further deepening the existing relation in between
the two nations. Focus was laid on economic issues that would
benefit the nation for a long whereas on the political side,
increasing mutual trust in the coming days progressive talks would
be held to solve the rising issues," Dahal said.
"Meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at (New
Delhi's) Hyderabad House was important among all. During the
bilateral meeting talks about trade, transportation, investments,
power trade and cross-border transmission line, irrigation,
measures to control inundation and floods, agriculture, crossborder
connectivity-railways, ICP, bridges as well as dry ports- these
issues related to infrastructural development was focused
primarily," the Nepal PM said addressing the National Assembly on
Wednesday.
Dahal also stated that PM Modi also talked about taking the
Nepal-India relations to the Himalayan heights. Prime Minister
Dahal reiterated that his four-day-long official visit to India at
the invitation of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was
centred on further consolidating bilateral relations.
Dahal asserted that positive agreements have been made in
matters of trade, transit, irrigation, agriculture, cross-border
petroleum pipeline construction, integrated check posts and
infrastructure development. He also informed the Parliament that
seven papers have been signed and exchanged between Nepal and India
during his recent India visit.
PM Dahal added that Nepal's transit facility has been ensured
through India's domestic waterway. He also stressed that his India
visit has contributed to making the Nepal-India relations
multi-dimensional and further strengthening them.
Noting that he also held talks on resolving flood and inundation
problems in Nepal-India border areas, PM Dahal said talks were held
regarding the construction of a concrete bridge at Jhulaghat with
India's support and grants to GP Koirala Institute of Health
Science.
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