By NNN-Xinhua,
Kathmandu : Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda said the 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship with India would be replaced as the treaty was signed in a different political context and did not conform with the needs of the 21st century and the aspirations of new Nepal, The Rising Nepal reported on Saturday.
“We have already worked out a draft for the new treaty but it would only be finalized after the task forces to be formed in the respective countries discuss extensively on the contents and hold further dialogues to finalize it following my forthcoming visit toIndia,” Prachanda told a group of journalists from the daily here on Friday.
He said that rather than proposing to India to review the treaty, it would be sensible to work towards its replacement.
“The very fact that a lot of anxieties and suspicions have arisen on both the sides regarding my visit is a precursor to my claim of the visit being a different one,” he said, adding that hewould work earnestly to fortify the mutual confidence at the political level.
Two days before departing to the southern neighbor, the prime minister preferred to term his visit largely an official visit and hinted that some facets of official exchange of views on wide ranging bilateral issues would also figure during the discussions with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh.