Nepal on Saturday said
it was confident that both its "friendly neighbours" India and China
will resolve their border stand-off at the Line of Actual Control through
peaceful means, keeping in mind the stability of the region and world peace.
The
Himalayan nation, sandwiched between the two Asian giants, said it has always
stood firmly for regional and world peace and expressed confidence that the
differences between India and China will be resolved in the "spirit of
good neighbourliness".
"Nepal maintains that disputes between the countries
should be resolved through peaceful means," the foreign ministry said in a
statement.
The statement comes days
after the Nepal government completed the process of redrawing the country's
political map through a Constitutional amendment, incorporating three
strategically important Indian areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura in
a move that could severely jolt bilateral relations with New Delhi.
"In the context of
recent developments in the Galwan Valley area between our friendly neighbours
India and China, Nepal is confident that both the neighbouring countries will
resolve, in the spirit of good neighbourliness, their mutual differences
through peaceful means in favour of bilateral, regional and world peace and
stability," it said.
Nepal's statement comes in
the backdrop of clashes that have taken place between the forces of two
countries in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh.
Twenty Indian Army
personnel, including a Colonel, were killed in the clash with Chinese troops in
the Galwan Valley on Monday night, the biggest military confrontation in over
five decades that has significantly escalated the already volatile border
standoff between the two countries.
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