Nepal-India relations taken to new height, claims Nepal PM

Jun 08, 2023

Kathmandu (Nepal), June 08 (ANI): 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 entourage of India from May 31-June 3, PM Dahal highlighted the progress made during the visit. 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.