NEW DELHI – India has got a diplomatic snub from tiny neighbouring NationNepal over creating hurdles in SAARC meeting in Pakistan.
Nepal on Friday strongly pitched for a South Asian Association of RegionalCooperation (Saarc) summit, saying that differences should be resolvedthrough dialogue and the grouping should collectively deal with terrorismand other key challenges facing the region, the Press Trust of India said.
According to the news agency, Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep KumarGyawali cited last year’s historic talks between US President Donald Trumpand North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, saying that dialogue wasthe only way to address differences.
“If US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim can meet, then why not[leaders of] other countries,” he said during an interaction with a groupof foreign policy experts and reporters.
It is Pakistan’s turn to host the summit. However, India — citing continuedsupport to alleged cross-border terrorism by Islamabad — has beenmaintaining that it is difficult to proceed with the summit.ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD
The 2016 Saarc summit was to be held in Islamabad. But after a deadlyterrorist attack on an Indian Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir that year,India expressed its inability to participate in it.