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Amid's seven-week military standoff between India and China over the Doklam plateau, Beijing on Tuesday upped the ante, with the Press Trust of India quoting a senior Chinese official as saying, "What New Delhi will do if China will enter the Kalapani region in Uttarakhand or Kashmir ".
The statement was given by Wang Wenli, Deputy Director General of the Boundary and Ocean Affairs of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to an Indian media delegation in Beijing.
"The Indian side has also many tri-junctions. What if we use the same excuse and enter Kalapani region between China, India and Nepal ..., "said Wang. "So, using the tri-junction as a excuse does not hold water at all. It will only cause more trouble, "Wang said, Kathmandu made enough ripples in Kathmandu as whether Kalapani was on its way to Doklam another.
During matrika Prasad Koirala's prime ministership in Nepal, Nepal allowed India to station its troops in Kathmandu and Nepal's northern border, including Kalapani. India later withdrew from other posts and stationed its troops on its side of the Kalapani border. But later on the Nepali region was encroached, Kalapani was a controversial region between Nepal and India.
When India and China agreed in 2015, the development of the route through Lipulek Pass near Kalapani, Kathmandu was kind of caught unawares, and foreign policy experts have always called in the question of the situation with dealing with the leadership of Nepali leadership and wherewithal.
The government had written about the agreement between Delhi and Beijing both, but we never received satisfactory responses, government officials say.
In the past, Nepali survey officials have presented verified maps showing Kalapani as part of Nepali territory, but it continues to be a conflicting area. Now that the Doklam standoff is on its peak, with coercive diplomacy on both sides of India and China, and the latter also bring Kalapani between them, experts say it is high time Nepal has issue this issue so that no border / diplomatic standoff with neighboring countries.
According to experts, Nepal is now a perfect opportunity to raise its issues, as Kathmandu will be coming from two high-profile guests to the south and the north in the coming week.
India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is coming on Thursday. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will visit Nepal from August 14. Their stay in Kathmandu will be scheduled for both the scheduled talks with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, which will set up on 23 August, India.
"We missed an opportunity to communicate our concerns properly when India and China agreed to extend the border trade through Lipulek Pass," said Ramesh Nath Pandey, the foreign minister. "We have failed to learn from our past experiences. The problem with us is the trust deficit with our neighbors. It's a high time we started working on confidence building with both our neighbors as we take up such sensitive issues. "
Narayan Kaji Shrestha, a former foreign minister also, said that Nepal and India have agreed on the agreement with Kalapani and Susta in conflicting areas, in the past several years there has been no progress.
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