PM Prachanda Holds Talks With His Indian Counterpart Modi In Delhi To Review Bilateral Ties
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his host counterpart Modi today held wide-ranging talks focusing on boosting India-Nepal cooperation in several areas including energy, connectivity. Prachanda began his four-day visit to India on Wednesday.
India and Nepal will strive to take their relationship to Himalayan heights and resolve the boundary issue and all such matters in this spirit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after holding wide-ranging talks with his Nepalese counterpart.
In his media statement after the talks, Mr. Modi said he and Mr. Prachanda took many important decisions to make the partnership between the two countries a “super hit” in the future even as the two leaders remotely inaugurated a number of projects and laid the foundation stone of some others.
The two sides also signed seven agreements to boost cooperation in a range of areas, including extension of cross-border petroleum pipeline, development of integrated check posts and boosting cooperation in hydroelectric power.
One of the key pacts signed was the revised India-Nepal treaty of transit.
“We will continue to strive to take our relationship to Himalayan heights. And in this spirit, we will resolve all issues, be it boundary related or any other issue,” Mr. Modi said in presence of Mr. Prachanda.
Mr. Modi also referred to his priority in strengthening ties with Nepal after he took charge as Prime Minister nine years back.
“I remember, nine years ago, in 2014, within three months of taking office, I made my first visit to Nepal. At that time I had given a ‘hit’ formula for India-Nepal relations — Highways, I-ways, and Trans-ways,” Mr. Modi said.
“I had said that we will establish such a relationship between India and Nepal that our borders do not become barriers between us,” he said.
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