Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav to visit India
By ANIThursday, February 4, 2010
KATHMANDU - The Council of Ministers (CoM) has approved Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav’s three-day official visit to India, scheduled to start from February 15.
According to Nepalnews, a 27-member team will be accompanying President Yadav to India.
The team will include tourism minister Sharat Singh Bhandari, secretary at the foreign ministry, secretary at the President’s office, the President’s advisors and representatives of state-owned media, Nepal Television, Rastriya Samachar Samiti and the Department of Communications.
During his visit, President Yadav will meet with his Indian counterpart President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, among others.
According to sources, President Yadav will ask for Indian assistance to check growing deforestation in Chure-Bhavar Range.
He is also scheduled to ask Indian assistance for the construction of South Asian Conference Center in Kathmandu, sources added.
This will be the President Yadav’s first visit to any foreign country after the country was declared republic in May 2008.
His visit had been delayed for some months as there was no functional Vice President to take over the former’s charge during his absence. Erstwhile Vice President Parmananda Jha was rendered defunct by a Supreme Court decision over the oath he took in Hindi. (ANI)
