Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) MP Khusbu Oli has expressed dissatisfaction over Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal's failure to raise the issue of the border dispute during his recent visit to India.
Speaking in the House of Representatives (HoR) meeting on Friday, Oli, who is also the RPP's whip, said that the border issue has been completely omitted from Nepal's press notes.
"The Foreign Minister did not raise the border issue anywhere during the meetings held during his recent visit to Delhi," she said. "He had said that he would talk about it later when he left Kathmandu for Delhi. But he did not raise the border issue anywhere in the formal talks in Delhi. There is not a single word about the border dispute in the press release issued by the Nepali side either."
She said that although the Foreign Minister had discussed something with journalists in a closed room in Delhi after the visit, not a single word about the border dispute was mentioned in the press notes after he returned to Kathmandu.
Stating that border problems and border management are different issues, she accused the Foreign Minister of only talking about border management, ignoring the border dispute.
"The Foreign Minister has not raised the issue of the border dispute in Parliament, but has only raised the issue of regular border management work, management of the border pillars and meetings," she said. "Border management and border disputes are different things. In the past four years, the issue of the border has always been present in Nepal's press notes in some way or the other. For the first time, it has been removed from the press notes." She suggested that the Foreign Minister should now strongly mention in the press notes that Lipulekh and Kalapani are ours when he visits China.
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