The two-day Sixteenth Meeting of the India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues concluded in Pune, India, on Tuesday. (Photo: Courtesy of Indian Embassy in Kathmandu)
The two-day Sixteenth Meeting of the India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues (INBCGSI) was concluded in Pune, India on Tuesday.
The Embassy of India in Kathmandu stated that the delegations comprised officials from the respective Foreign and Defense Ministries as well as Directorates of the Indian Army and the Nepali Army.
It is said that both sides held productive discussions on a wide range of issues relating to security and defense cooperation such as equipment supplies, training, joint military exercises, disaster relief operations and military exchanges.
The delegations also visited key public and private defense sector manufacturing facilities to explore possibilities for mutually beneficial collaboration.
The Nepali delegation was led by Gahendra Rajbhandari, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and the Indian delegation was led by Munu Mahawar, Additional Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs of India.
The INBCGSI was established in 2003 and is the umbrella institutional mechanism between Nepal and India that coordinates bilateral defense and security cooperation.
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