Nepal favours talks to resolve border issue with India; wants 'good ties' with China too

Nepal Foreign Minister who is on a three-day visit to India on Friday pitched for talks between New Delhi and Kathmandu to resolve pending boundary issue. Preep Kumar Gyawali also sought an early review of bilateral peace and friendship treaty of 1950 and flagged concerns over his country's tre deficit with India.

'Boundary issue will be resolved through talks'

In an dress at Indian Council of World Affairs, he said Nepal wants to take relations with India to next level, but at same time ded, "We should be mindful equally that healthy relations require continuous nurturing, creative thinking, promptness and reiness to understand each or in changing dynamics."

Referring to boundary dispute, Nepalese Foreign Minister said finding a solution to it will help instil a greater degree of trust and confidence in bilateral ties. "While both sides have agreed to resolve boundary question through talks, we have also shown wisdom that despite difference in one area, momentum of our overall engments is continued," he said.

"We are also mindful that we should t let any outstanding issue between us be re forever and become irritant in an orwise friendly relationship," he said.

Gyawali also held wide-ranging talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday. Nepalese diplomatic sources told PTI that boundary issue figured in a one-on-one meeting between two Foreign Ministers. Ties between India and Nepal came under severe strain after Nepal last year published a new political map that showed three Indian territories - Limpiyhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh - as part of Nepal.

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'We never compare our relations': Nepal Foreign Minister

Preep Kumar Gyawali also said that Nepal has maintained good relations with India and China and ensured its soil is t misused for "illegitimate interests" of any neighbouring country. "What I can just say is that Nepal has always maintained good relations with our both neighbours. We never compare our relations with our friends. We have ensured that our soil won't be misused for illegitimate interest of any neighbouring country," he said.

He said Nepal's location between two biggest markets of world was an opportunity and country is benefitted by fast ecomic growth of two neighbours. "That is why we are strengning our relations with our neighbouring countries, but we never compare our relations," he said.

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