In the schedule of Oli's visit to Thailand, prepared on behalf of Nepal, it is mentioned that he will meet with Modi at 20 minutes from 4 pm on Friday.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is visiting Thailand, will have a sideline meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday afternoon. Oli has already reached Thailand to participate in the Bay of Bengal Initiative (BIMSTEC) summit for multi-sectoral technical and economic cooperation.
Indian Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to arrive on Thursday. Nepal made diplomatic efforts for a sideline meeting between Oli and Modi. According to an official in the visiting team, a meeting with the Prime Minister has been scheduled.
"Friday at 4 pm meeting with Modiji is scheduled," he told Kantipur. In the schedule of Oli's visit to Thailand, prepared on behalf of Nepal, it is mentioned that he will meet with Modi at 20 minutes from 4 pm on Friday. Before that, Oli is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with the heads of government of Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Myanmar on Thursday.
Spokesman and joint secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Krishna Dhakal, responded that there are preparations for a sideline meeting between the Prime Ministers of Nepal and India on Friday afternoon. Modi will be in Thailand on a two-day visit on April 3 and 4.
He is preparing to visit Sri Lanka from there. Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, said that Prime Minister Modi may have a sideline meeting with the leaders of various countries participating in "BIMSTEC". Bilateral sideline meeting with Nepal's Prime Minister Oli has been scheduled? In Kantipur's inquiry, he said that there is a possibility.
But there is no mention of meeting with Oli in the visit schedule of Indian Prime Minister Modi. However, his time from 3 pm to 5 pm on Friday is free. No program is mentioned during that period.
It has been 8 and a half months since Oli became the Prime Minister of Nepal. However, so far Oli has not received an invitation to visit India from Indian Prime Minister Modi. Earlier, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Sher Bahadur Deuba got the opportunity to visit India. Oli's failure to visit India has been viewed as a coldness in relations with India.
That's why the subject of a separate meeting between Oli and Modi in Thailand is highly anticipated. Within three months of becoming the Prime Minister, Oli had the opportunity to have a sideline meeting with Modi in New York last October.
The sideline meeting was held during the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations. Since then, Oli and Modi are meeting on the platform of BIMSTEC. If there is a bilateral meeting in Thailand, this will be his second meeting with Modi outside of India or Nepal.
The Indian newspaper Times of India has written that even though there has been a proposal from Nepal for Oli's meeting with Modi, it has not been officially confirmed. At the BIMSTEC summit, Modi is meeting with Bangladesh's Interim Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus for the first time .
Bangladesh has sent a request through diplomatic channels for Yunus' meeting with Modi. However, it has not yet been officially confirmed that the sideline meeting will not take place.
After the uprising in August last year, the government led by Sheikh Hasina was ousted and an interim government was formed under the leadership of Yunus. After the Yunus-led government came, the relationship with India has remained cold .
