Nepalese PM Sher Bahadur Deuba will visit India from April 1 to 3 and meet Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 2, confirmed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) .
The MEA also said that Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval will call on the Nepal PM during his upcoming visit.
PM Sher Bahadur Deuba will be accompanied by his wife Dr Arzu Deuba and a high-level delegation.
In an official statement, the MEA said, “India and Nepal enjoy age-old and special ties of friendship and cooperation. In recent years, the partnership has witnessed significant growth in all areas of cooperation.”
“The upcoming visit will provide an opportunity to the two sides to review this wide-ranging cooperative partnership and to progress it further for the benefit of the two peoples,” it added.
“Besides official engagements in New Delhi, the Prime Minister of Nepal will visit Varanasi,” the MEA said.
It should be noted that this will be Deuba’s first bilateral visit abroad after becoming the Prime Minister of Nepal last year in July for the fifth time.
He had visited India in each of his four earlier stints as prime minister of Nepal. His last visit to India in his capacity as prime minister was in 2017.
Back in November 2020, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had visited Nepal with an aim to iron out the differences between the two nations. Shringla’s trip was followed by a visit to India by then Nepalese foreign minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali.
