Prachanda “floated a proposal for trilateral strategic partnership among the three countries”, which Modi and Xi acknowledged as ‘significant’ and said they were positive towards it, the report said, citing a statement issued by his secretariat on the Prime Minister’s personal website.
The Nepalese premier, who reached India to attend the BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit yesterday, first held a one-on- one meeting with Chinese President Xi which lasted for around 20 minutes and later Modi joined them. The leaders discussed issues of common interests, Prachanda’s personal secretary Prakash Dahal, who is also his son, was quoted as saying.
According to the statement, Prachanda said during the meeting that “we (Nepal) are located between two giant countries. We want to become a dynamic bridge between the two countries and reap the benefit”.
