{"id":6998,"date":"2024-08-12T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T09:18:29","slug":"indias-foreign-secretary-calls-on-minister-lekhak-discusses-various-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/indias-foreign-secretary-calls-on-minister-lekhak-discusses-various-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s foreign secretary calls on Minister Lekhak, discusses various issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 12: Visiting Foreign Secretary of India, Vikram Misri, today paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting held at the Singha Durbar-based Home Ministry, the two discussed matters of bilateral interest and concerns, according to the Home Minister&#8217;s Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nepal and India observe cordial relations,&#8221; the Minister said in the meeting, expressing his hope that such ties would be further expanded and consolidated during Foreign Secretary Misri&#8217;s term.<br \/>\nAcknowledging India as Nepal&#8217;s significant partner in security, infrastructure, energy, and water resources sectors, the Home Minister thanked India for its contributions to the enhancement of competency of Nepal&#8217;s security forces and the infrastructure development here.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the Home Minister pledged that no activities against the neighbouring countries would be entertained in Nepali territory. &#8220;Nepal&#8217;s territory will not be allowed to be used for any activities against its neighbors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He assured of full security of investment from the Government of India in Nepal, underlining the need for scaling up mutual coordination and collaboration between the two countries to combat cross-border crime including drug smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the foreign secretary spoke of the support and cooperation from India for effective management of borders, combating trans-border crimes, and ensuring the security of the citizens of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>As he highlighted during the meeting, the Government of India is committed to lending its support regarding strengthening Nepal&#8217;s security and immigration administration.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing a very successful term for Minister Lekhak, the foreign secretary was hopeful that Nepal-India friendly and diplomatic relations would further strengthen in the days to come.<br \/>\nHe arrived here on a two-day official visit beginning on Sunday, August 11 at the cordial invitation of Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 12: Visiting Foreign Secretary of India, Vikram Misri, today paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak. In the meeting held at the Singha Durbar-based Home Ministry, the two discussed matters of bilateral interest and concerns, according to the Home Minister&#8217;s Secretariat. &#8220;Nepal and India observe cordial relations,&#8221; the Minister said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998"}],"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=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}