Kathmandu, January 11
A meeting of the Eminent Persons Group on Nepal-India Relations (EPG-NIR) has begun in New Delhi of India on Thursday.
The meeting will discuss which provisions of various bilateral treaties and agreements including the 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty need to be amended.
The EPG is a joint mechanism of Nepal and India set up in February 2016 in order to give necessary suggestions to update all existing bilateral treaties and agreements. Four persons from each country are members of the panel.
In its meetings, the Nepali side has been repeatedly advocating for revising two points of the 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty–about supply of arms and ammunition to Nepal from third countries and equal facilities to citizens of the two nations.
Experts of bilateral ties say the Nepali side’s stance is right, though India has not entertained it much.
