Border Issues With India To Be Addressed Through Existing Mechanism: Nepal

Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba and PM Modi discussed the Indo-Nepal border issue in New Delhi and they agreed to address it through existing mechanism, dialogue and diplomacy.

Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba returned home on Sunday after concluding his maiden visit to India during which he discussed the boundary issues with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the two leaders agreed to address it through existing mechanism, dialogue and diplomacy.

The two prime ministers on Saturday held extensive talks in New Delhi covering various key facets of close neighbourly ties between the two countries.

Deuba, accompanied by a high-level delegation, arrived in New Delhi on Friday on a three-day visit at the invitation of PM Modi.

"The bilateral talks and exchange of views were fruitful towards further strengthening cooperative relations between the two countries," Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka, who was also part of the entourage, said while talking to reporters in Kathmandu on Sunday.