KATHMANDU, JAN 15 - The UCPN (Maoist) said on Friday that it will take up a range of issues including border encroachment during its meeting with visiting Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, who arrived here in the capital on his first official visit to Nepal. 

During a meeting with Indian Minister Krishna scheduled for tomorrow, Maoist leaders including Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal will insist on scrapping the 1950 Peace and Friendship treaty between Nepal and India, resolving the encroachment of border problems, publicising secret treaties signed between the two nations and redefining the ties between the two countries on the basis of equality.

“We will discuss by focusing mainly on four or five issues including the scrap of unequal treaties, border disputes, improve relations between the people of the two counties and review treaties in the interest of both the counties,” said Maoist Spokesperson Dinanath Sharma, talking to Radio Kantipur today.

When asked what kind of impression would it have if raised by a party instead of discussing it at government or diplomatic level, the Maoist spokesperson remarked that all the rulers of Nepal ever since the Sugauli treaty were “surrenderists”. He said that his party was compelled to raise the issue through people as they could not be sorted out through diplomatic means.

Posted on: 2010-01-15 06:15

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