“The Air Service Agreement will be signed within two weeks and flights will begin in December,” Koirala told myrepublica after meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Dr Talitha TB Kohana on Monday.
Kohana, who is on a three-day official visit to Nepal, said a joint commission will be formed within a month to strengthen the bilateral cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, tourism and culture and health and education.
Both the Air Service Agreement and the Joint-Commission mechanism were proposed during the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa´s visit to Nepal in March.
Kohana is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Monday afternoon and will invite him for Sri Lanka visit.
Meanwhile, the ministry informed that Nepal will host the South Asian Climate Change Conference in Kathmandu on August 31-September 1 in which ministers of all South Asian countries will attend.
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