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Outsiders won't be allowed to meddle in Nepal: FM Pandey



Nepal is being pressured by a terrorist group (the Maoists?) to accept outside intervention that might entail anti-China activities.

This sounds like the U.S. is behind the terrorists.


Fresh from its perceived success in Kyrgyzstan, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an American non-governmental organization, has a new mission in Nepal, where King Gyanendra has assumed autocratic powers.

Beijing has even more reason to concern itself with the NED's presence in Nepal, next door to sensitive Tibet. The NED makes no bones of its concerns about Uighur Chinese, and is known to have earlier funded anti-China forces in Tibet.
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KOL Report

KATHMANDU, Aug 17 - Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey Wednesday expressed Nepal's determination not to allow outsiders to muddle into internal affairs and determine her future.

Minister Pandey who is in China at present made the remark while delivering a speech at the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) in Beijing this morning.

"Nepal has now been pressurized by a terrorist group and their supporters and sympathizers to accept outside intervention in its domestic problem, a press statement issued by the Embassy of Nepal in Beijing quoted the minister as saying.

Nepal is aware of its sensitive geo-strategic location and shall remain firm in its resolve not to permit the misuse of its territory for sinister designs hatched for ominous purposes, he said.

On Nepal-China relations, Pandey said that the understanding, goodwill and trust have been the hallmarks of mutual relations and that both the countries have always respected, in unequivocal terms, each other’s sovereignty and political independence and refrained from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.

Stating that Nepal has firmly endorsed one-China policy, he said that Nepal is determined to see that no anti-China activities are carried out from Nepali soil and that the instability in our country is not exploited for sinister designs in any form against the development, progress and peace of Tibet Autonomous Region.

"China has always valued our principled stand on these issues," Pandey said. (dds)


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