Kathmandu, May 8: Prime Minister K.P.
Sharma Oli said on Tuesday that the Indian leadership would show respect to
Nepal’s ‘national interest’ and wouldn’t interfere in the internal affairs of
the latter.
“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
visiting Nepal on what I had suggested him during my visit to India last
month,” he said while interacting with former ministers for foreign affairs and
senior politicians at his office in Singha Durbar.
He had invited experts and politicians
to discuss the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Modi.
Modi is arriving in Janakpur, the capital
of Province No. 2, on May 11 on a 2-day visit at the invitation of Prime
Minister Oli.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep
Gyawali informed about the programmes to be organised during the visit of the
Indian Prime Minister.
Former Prime Minister and Foreign
Affairs Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said that India should show higher
sensitivity to the inundation of Nepal’s Terai region caused by the dams
constructed by the Indian side along the Nepal-India border.
Rajendra Shrestha, joint-chairman of
Federal Democratic Forum, urged one and all to give top priority to the country’s
national interest.
Former foreign affairs minister Narayan
Kaji Shrestha, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, Dr. Bhekh Bahadur Thapa, former minister
for defense Bhim Rawal and coordinator of Rastriya Janata Party Mahantha Thakur
said that the southern neighbour should implement its past pledges and
agreements.
Dr. Thapa said that there had never been
such initiatives between the two countries before Oli’s premiership.
“There have been a lot of dialogues and
discussions between the two countries, and Nepal’s voice is being heard at the
leadership level in India. It is said that India will implement the past
agreements,” he said.
Indian Prime Minister Modi will perform worship
at the Janaki Temple in Janakpur, attend a civic reception there, go to
Muktinath in Mustang district for worship, and participate in high level
bilateral meetings in Kathmandu.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 9 May 2018.
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