16th meeting of Nepal-India Consultative Group on security issues concludes

Kathmandu, June 24: The two-day Sixteenth Meeting of the India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues (INBCGSI) was concluded in Pune, India on Tuesday.     

The Embassy of India in Kathmandu stated that the delegations comprised officials from the respective Foreign and Defence Ministries as well as Directorates of the Indian Army and the Nepali Army.     

It is said that both sides held productive discussions on a wide range of issues relating to security and defence cooperation such as equipment supplies, training, joint military exercises, disaster relief operations and military exchanges.     

The delegations also visited key public and private defence sector manufacturing facilities to explore possibilities for mutually beneficial collaboration.     

The Nepali delegation was led by Gahendra Rajbhandari, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and the Indian delegation was led by Munu Mahawar, Additional Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs of India.     

The INBCGSI was established in 2003 and is the umbrella institutional mechanism between Nepal and India that coordinates bilateral defence and security cooperation.(RSS)