The former foreign ministers furnished such suggestions at a conference on ´Nepal´s Foreign Policy and Future Course´ organized by the Centre for South Asian Study in the capital Monday.[break]
Presenting a working paper on Nepal-India relations, former foreign minister Upendra Yadav said the relations between Nepal and India was facing problems due to India´s strategic interest in the Himalayan region.
Both countries should address each other´s concerns in order to strengthen the relations between the two countries, he stressed.
Similarly, former foreign minister Ramesh Nath Pandey presented a working paper on Nepal´s relations with China and Japan and said China and Japan have no interest at all in Nepal whatever changes occur here. However, China always wants to see one China policy in Nepal, he added.
Nepal is strategically located in the regional level, he said, adding that it was not unusual if neighbouring countries both emerged in the global competition wanted to see their influence strengthened in Nepal.
Moreover, another former foreign minister Dr Prakash Chandra Lohani presented a working paper on the relations between Nepal and the US. He said Nepal is one of the oldest friendly countries of the US. So, she has continuous interest in Nepal´s sovereignty, unity and independence, he claimed.
All of the speakers admitted that though Nepal was nestled between the two giant economic powers and getting continuous help from world´s super power, it failed to reap the benefit.
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