CPC and NCP sign deal for party level cooperation

Kathmandu, Sept. 24

Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and Communist Party of China (CPC) Tuesday signed an understanding for political and civil society exchange between the two political institutions.

Chief of NCP’s Foreign Affairs Department Madhav Kumar Nepal and Chief of International Department of CPC Song Tao signed a 6-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of NCP chairs KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’.

The two parties have agreed to organise high-level political exchanges between the two countries, enhancing study visits at the cadre level and youth and local leaders, and exchange of cooperation based on party-to-party experiences.

Similarly, increasing people to people (intellectuals, civil society and media) relations, and organising annual porgrammes on thoughts and policies are the other areas of cooperation.

 This is first of such agreement between the political parties of the two neighbours.

NCP Chair and Prime Minister Oli said that the CPC had made a glorious history in terms of developing the political party following the revolution and addressing the public need to lead the country on the path of development and prosperity.

Speaking at the ideological training organised jointly by the foreign affairs department of the NCP and CPC, he said that the Chinese model of development, governance and economic progress had inspired many nations across the globe.

He expressed his happiness over the organisation of ideological discussion between the two communist parties of Nepal and China and expressed his hope that the Chinese experiences would be useful for Nepal in political development and enhance relationship between the two institutions.

PM Oli noted that the bilateral relations between the two countries were of mutual respect of sovereignty, independence, national integrity and development aspiration.

He reiterated Nepal’s ‘One China’ policy and said that Nepal would not allow any forces to use its land against the neighbouring and friendly countries.

Song is on a 3-day visit in Nepal in an effort to increase the party-level relations between the two countries and promote Xi thoughts. 

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 25 September 2019.