{"id":47328,"date":"2026-05-08T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47328"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:32:32","slug":"government-reaffirms-diplomatic-push-to-resolve-lipulek-kalapani-border-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/government-reaffirms-diplomatic-push-to-resolve-lipulek-kalapani-border-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Government reaffirms diplomatic push to resolve Lipulek, Kalapani border disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 8: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the government is making efforts to resolve the border issues concerning the Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani areas through diplomatic means.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a programme organised by the Ministry here on Friday, Ministry Spokesperson Lok Bahadur Poudel Chhetri said the government has already made its position clear regarding Lipulek. &#8220;The Ministry is clear that diplomatic efforts are warranted to address these borders issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that on May 3, the government had publicly stated that the pilgrimage route to the Kailash Mansarovar being operated between China and Nepal passes through Nepal&#8217;s territory at Lipulek.<br \/>\nThe 1816 Sugauli Treaty clearly states that Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani, located to the east of Mahakali River, are parts of Nepal, and the government&#8217;s diplomatic efforts are underway to resolve the disputes based on this position, according to the Spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>He said that both neighbours: India and China, have been informed and reminded of Nepal&#8217;s stance time and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 8: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the government is making efforts to resolve the border issues concerning the Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani areas through diplomatic means. Speaking at a programme organised by the Ministry here on Friday, Ministry Spokesperson Lok Bahadur Poudel Chhetri said the government has already made its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-main-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47331,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47328\/revisions\/47331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}