Will go to Beijing, DPM Gachhadar tells envoy Yang
Move will pave way for Wen visit: Officials
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KATHMANDU, DEC 21 -
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar has agreed to visit China, a move that is expected to pave the way of the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Nepal, which was postponed last week.
Gachhadar accepted the Chinese invitation in a meeting in his office with Chinese Ambassador Yang Houlan on Monday.
“With the acceptance of the invitation by the DPM, we hope that the stalled visit of the Chinese PM will now take place,” a highly-placed official said. The official added that Wen’s visit will take place once the Chinese side is fully convinced of the security arrangements in Kathmandu.
“The exact date of the China visit is yet to be fixed, but DPM Gachhadar is most likely to go to China in the next 15-30 days,” sources said.
Earlier, Gachhadar had reportedly turned down the Chinese request to visit China ahead of the Chinese PM’s visit. Gachhadar was supposed to assure Beijing that Kathmandu was committed to providing fool-proof security to Wen during his visit to Nepal.
Some in the Nepali security apparatus had cited ‘hostility’ exhibited by the Home establishment as one of the prime reasons for the postponement of Wen’s visit.
Earlier, there was a plan to arrange visits of Foreign and Home Ministers to China ahead of Wen’s visit to discuss policy and security-related issues. The foreign minister was expected to discuss the policies and agenda of Wen’s visit.
Posted on: 2011-12-21 08:24
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