Nepal will not sign any controversial deal with India: PM

I / Kathmandu August 8, 2009, 12:51 IST

Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has assured the Parliament that his government will not sign any controversial agreement with India without taking them into confidence during his maiden "goodwill visit" to the neighbouring country.

Prime Minister Nepal, who is scheduled to visit India on August 18 on his first official tour after assuming office, told the Parliamentary Committee on International Relations and Human Rights that he would not sign any deal with New Delhi that would give rise to disagreement among political parties here.

Responding to questions raised by members in the Parliamentary Committee, the prime minister asked them not to harbour any suspicion about his "goodwill visit" to India.  

 

No new treaty on water resources will be signed during his five-day visit to India without reaching political consensus at home, parliamentary sources quoted the Prime minister as saying.  

He said his priority would be to get the agreements already reached between the two countries implemented on time-bound basis rather than signing new ones.