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India and Nepal person an accidental to “decisively shift” the way of their bilateral ties to execute its afloat potential, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said connected Saturday (June 6, 2026), aft authoritative talks with his visiting Nepali counterpart Shisir Khanal.
Citing this week’s sojourn by Rabi Lamichhane, the chairperson of Nepal’s ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party, Mr. Jaishankar said determination are “strong complementarities” betwixt the authorities of Prime Minister Balendra Shah successful Kathmandu and the authorities of India.
Saying that Mr. Shah wants to prosecute “result-driven diplomacy”, Mr. Khanal described India arsenic Nepal’s “most important partner”.
Strong complementarities
The speech betwixt the 2 Foreign Ministers came connected the 2nd time of Mr. Khanal’s visit, the archetypal specified sojourn by immoderate subordinate of the RSP authorities that came to powerfulness successful March 2026.
“I privation to instrumentality the accidental to convey our champion wishes for the occurrence of your government,” Mr. Jaishankar said. “There are beardown complementarities betwixt the objectives outlined by your authorities and initiatives that India has taken successful the neighbourhood.”
“I privation contiguous to precise intelligibly and powerfully nonstop a connection of collaboration and cooperation. We judge that contiguous we person an accidental to decisively displacement the trajectory of India-Nepal relations and to realise the afloat imaginable of our ties,” helium added.
‘No aged baggage’
Describing India and Nepal arsenic “stakeholders of a arrogant past civilisation”, Mr. Khanal said, “We question to construe this civilisational enslaved into modern improvement oriented partnership. Nepal has placed the highest precedence connected its narration with India. Under the caller government, we are acceptable to prosecute substantively, purposefully and astatine the highest imaginable levels.”
“Nepal’s caller authorities carries a wide and decisive mandate for bully governance, economical translation and result-driven diplomacy. We transportation nary aged baggage and lone a steadfast resoluteness to physique a genuinely transformative narration with our adjacent neighbour and astir important partner,” said Mr. Khanal.
Mr. Khanal arrived successful Delhi connected Friday and met National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and was past hosted astatine a circular array treatment organised by India Foundation with erstwhile diplomats and specialists connected India-Nepal relations.
