Onlinekhabar
Kathmandu, January 24
India has acknowledging yesterday’s constitutional amendments as “positive developments”, indicating, though, that they are not enough.
“We regard the two amendments passed yesterday by the Nepali Parliament as positive developments,” India’s Ministry of External Affairs said in a press statement today. It expressed hope other “outstanding issues” are similarly addressed in a constructive spirit.
When Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Thapa visited New Delhi a month back, government sources reported India would welcome amendments to the Constitution, which Nepal’s popularly-elected Constituent Assembly had promulgated months earlier, and lift the blockade.
Even after the KP Sharma Oli government made amendments expecting India to lift the embargo, the same is unlikely to happen with India not “welcoming” the move “wholeheartedly”.
After promulgation of the constitution through the CA, India had released a statement saying it had “noted” the promulgation.
