Saturday, March 19, 2016

PM’s China visit to focus on prioritising agreement on transit facility’

  Kathmandu, March 19: In the run-up to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s China visit scheduled to begin on Sunday, the National Awakening Campaign has suggested prioritising an agreement on transit facility of landlocked Nepal to trade with the rest of the world through sea during the visit.

A statement issued by the campaign spokespersons Dr Binod Neupane today demanded that consultations should be held with China to find all available ways to permanently sort out fuel crisis facing Nepal at present. The campaign is coordinated by former minister Dr Upendra Devkota.

The statement also demanded scraping of the agreement struck between India and China concerning Nepali territory Lipulekh, and urged the Prime Minister to take it up with the Chinese government.

Also, the statement demanded that issues including increment of trade with China to end Nepal’s sole dependency on India and opening all border points with China should also be raised with China. RSS