Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
will visit India
from 19 to 24 February, informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA),
Friday.
Issuing a press statement, the
Foreign Ministry informed that PM Oli was visiting the southern neighbour at
its Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation and both would hold official
talks on matters of mutual interest.
The Prime Minister is also
scheduled to call on Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice-President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari as well as leaders of various political parties.
“He will also interact with the
business community and address an event of the Indian Council of World Affairs
while in Delhi,” read the press release.
PM's foreign affairs advisor Gopal
Khanal informed that the visit would focus on normalizing the bilateral
relations between Nepal and India.
PM Oli will meet Indian business
community in New Delhi and Mumbai, and will attend a dinner hosted by the
Nepalese Embassy in Delhi.
The bilateral relations between
the two countries witnessed an upset when India expressed its dissatisfaction over
the promulgation of Nepal’s constitution on 20th September last year
and tightened the customs points on the southern border.
Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad
Paudel concluded his three-day trip to India this week to make necessary
arrangements for PM Oli's maiden foreign sojourn.
During his visit, Minister
Paudel held meetings with the Indian Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh, his
counterpart Arun Jaitley and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, and
discussed Nepal’s post-quake reconstruction, bilateral trade and economic
cooperation and other issues of bilateral interest.
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