Meeting of EPG on India-Nepal ties begins in Kathmandu

The third meeting of the India-Nepal Eminent Persons' Group began today in the Nepalese capital which will discuss various bilateral issues including the revision of the crucial Peace and Friendship Treaty signed in 1950.
The 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship is a bilateral treaty between Nepal and India establishing a close strategic relationship between both countries.
Those who are attending the two-day meeting includes, Bhekh Bahadur Thapa, Nilamber Acharya, Rajan Bhattarai and Surya Nath Upadhyay from the Nepali side, and Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Jayant Prasad, BC Upreti and Mahendra P Lama from the Indian side.
The Eminent Persons Group on Nepal-India Relations (EPG-NIR) is a joint mechanism consisting experts and intellectuals from Nepal and India that was set up in February last year to provide necessary suggestions to update all existing bilateral treaties and agreements between the two countries.

Its first meeting was held in Kathmandu in Julyandsecond meeting in New Delhiin October last year.