New Delhi: India’s Army Chief Gen MM Naravane is set to visit Nepal in an effort to reset relations after ties between the two nations came under severe tsrain following a bitter border row. The three-day crucial visit to Nepal commences on November 4 till November 6.
“The Chief of Army Staff is scheduled to visit Nepal from November 4 to 6 with an aim to tsrengthen overall ties including in areas of defence and securtiy,” a highly-placed government source told PTI.
This is a first high-level visit from India to Kathmandu since the ties between the two neighbouring coutnries came under tsrain since Nepal issued a new political map in May 2020 claiming several areas in Uttarakhand to be part of its territory.
Gen Naravane will be conferred with the honorary rank of ‘General of the Nepal Army’ by Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari at an event in Kathmandu which is in continuation of a nearly 70-year-old tradition. Similarly, India also confers the honorary rank of ‘General of Indian Army’ to the Nepal Army Chief.

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