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Nepal-India: Treaty of Mahakali

news TREATY-- HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL AND THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CONCERNING THE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAHAKALI RIVER INCLUDING SARADA BARRAGE, TANAKPUR BARRAGE AND PANCHESHWAR PROJECT (1996) His Majesty's Government of NEPAL...( Read More )

Kosi Agreement between India and Nepal

news THIS Agreement made this twentyfifth day of April 1954, between the Government of the Kingdom of Nepal (hereinafter referred to as the 'Government') and the Government of India (herein after referred to as the 'Union') WHEREAS the Union...( Read More )

Collective actions to promote collective prosperity in SA: PMKoirala

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Girija Prasad Koirala
Prime Minister of Nepal
15th SAARC Summit
Text of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala’s speech at 15th SAARC summit Your Excellency Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa Your Excellencies the Heads of State and Government of SAARC  Your Excellencies the Representatives from the Observer...( Read More )

We need to fight terrorism collectively: Pakistan PM

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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
Pakistan
15th SAARC Summit
Full text of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the 15th SAARC Summit In the name of God, the most beneficent, the most merciful. Your Excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse, Your Excellencies the Heads of State and...( Read More )

Prosperous South Asia will be a peaceful SA: Manmohan Singh

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Man Mohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
15th SAARC Summit
Text of Manmohan Singh's speech at 15th SAARC summit I wish to begin by congratulating His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his election as Chairperson of SAARC. I also convey my deep appreciation to the Government and people of...( Read More )

SACEPS recommendation to 15th SAARC Summit

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TGW
Recommendations to The Fifteenth  SAARC Summit The South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS)* has the pleasure in submitting to the member states of SAARC a series of important decisions that the 15th SAARC Summit in Colombo, Sri...( Read More )

The SAARC Problematique

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By Madhukar S.J.B.Rana
Former Finance Minister, Nepal
Late King Birendra of Nepal had actually, as early as 1977 at the Colombo Plan Ministerial Meeting held in Kathmandu, made the first ever international call for regional cooperation through multi-functional harnessing of the Himalayan...( Read More )

On the Occassion of 17th German Unity Day:2007

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Nepal-German Relations
Message from the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Franz Ring On the 17th Anniversary of the Day of German Unity: 2007 On 3 October 2007 Germany is celebrating the 17th anniversary of its unification. On this day, Germany...( Read More )

Indo-Nepal Strategic Partnership for the Asian Century:

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Madhukar Shumshere J.B.Rana
From Dependency to Interdependence, Landlocked to Transit State And Buffer to Bridge State
Rationale, Aims and Assumptions This essay purports to address vital issues for more trustworthy, harmonious, and mutually beneficial Indo-Nepal political, security, and economic relations. Peace, prosperity, and brotherhood between the...( Read More )

Pakistan desires a peaceful environment in the South Asia Region

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Sohail Amin
Ambassador of Pakistan in Nepal
Nepal-Pakistan
Kathmandu: Pakistan believes that without peace in and around South Asia there can be no lasting stability and sans lasting stability, the goals of economic development will remain in the realm of dreams and that’s why Pakistan considers...( Read More )

Unveiling Bhutan

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Tek Nath Rijal, Thinley Penjore
Aspects of Bhutanese Refugee Impasse
Unveiling Bhutan   Aspects of Bhutanese Refugee Impasse        Prepared by:   Tek Nath Rijal, Chairman, BMSC   Thinley Penjore, Vice Chairman,...( Read More )

Where is the SAARC dividend for our people?

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Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister, PAKISTAN
Today, the eyes of over a billion South Asians are upon us. We, the leaders of South Asia, bear on our shoulders the hopes and aspirations of our peoples. It is our responsibility to ensure for them and our future generations, a region...( Read More )

Declaration of SAARC-Delhi Summit:2007

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14th SAARC Summit
Following is the text of the declaration adopted by the leaders of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at its 14th summit held at New Delhi on April 3 and 4, 2007. The text begins: 1. “The President of the Islamic...( Read More )

India is ready to accept asymmetrical responsibilities without insisting on reciprocity

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Dr. Man Mohan Singh
Prime Minister, India
South Asia is in the midst of an unprecedented political and economic transformation. The political transitions, painful as they may be, are something that each one of us has to work out for ourselves, within our countries and between our...( Read More )

SAARC: The time has come to move away from 'fancy rhetoric' and give way for action

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H.E. Mahinda Rajapakse
President of Sri Lanka
Our region is the proud inheritor of a unique historical tradition. Our common contribution to religion, art, literature and moral values is second to none. But, today, we are a region of contrasts. There are significant disparities in...( Read More )

From SARC to SAARC-The “gang of four”-III

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N.P.Upadhyaya
There has been a pretty long debate as to which of the two leaders from South Asia, late King Birendra of Nepal or late President Zia-ur-Rahman of Bangladesh, be taken for granted as the main political personality behind the formation of...( Read More )

SAARC: The formation of “Gang of Three”-II

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N.P.Upadhyaya
The SAARC as a regional body would have collapsed some seven/eight years back when the Indian establishment aiming at “cornering” Pakistan, used Nepal, Bangladesh and its protectorate-Bhutan-and thus paved the birth of what is still called...( Read More )

SAARC: The formation of “Gang of Three”

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N.P.Upadhyaya
The Indian establishment must have begun feeling the heat. To the utter chagrin of the self proclaimed regional “big-brother”, India, perhaps have had not expected that the “gang of three”, e.g. Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh would...( Read More )

14th SAARC Summit: Key points by PM Koirala

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SAARC
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at the inaugural session of the 14th SAARC summit in New Delhi on Monday said that "I have gambled 60 years of my political career, now the situation has calmed down and they (Maoists) have come within...( Read More )

14th SAARC Summit: Chinese Proposal

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SAARC
Five proposals for cooperation with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), were proposed by Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing at the 14th SAARC summit in New Delhi. Making a speech at the 14th SAARC summit...( Read More )

Five Questions

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    People are fed up, frustrated and tired with these political leaders of Nepal
    Dr. Hari Pandey , Florida, USA

    I have reservation on utilization of existing man power mechanism of our MOFA which are from old bureaucratic set up and are not...

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    Revived Nepal Monarchy could be collective strength of China and India
    Balkrishna Neupane , Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, Nepal

    There is no suitable alternative than the appearance of Army Rule in Nepal.

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    If Maoist forms government then what would be left other than continued ideological conflict?
    Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani , Vice Chairman, Rastriya Janshakti party, Nepal

    A government will not be formed which would, by extension, mean the miserable failure of the parliament body itself.

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    The timing of India’s Shyam Saran arrival in Nepal was dangerous
    Sushil Shrestha , Deputy SG, RPP-Nepal

    Perhaps the Maoists got the point and may have felt the same and thus we received “positive signals” from the Maoists to our...

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    Nepal’s Republican order has become defunct
    Experts ,

    Though the two major parties whether it is the Congress or the UML, may have come together again but the lobbies within still...

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India’s two pronged strategy for defense support to Nepal

TGW... 2009-07-23 No Comments

Here lay the significance of the Nepalese Minister Bidya Bhandari’s India trip and the prompt positive response of the...

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Can India & China afford...

Niraj Aryal2010-07-212 Comments

One former Indian ambassador to Nepal replied talking to the BBC few months back that whenever India and China meet it...

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