China assures visiting Nepal Foreign Minister Khadka of supporting the feasibility study of China-Nepal cross-border railway under BRI

China assures visiting Nepal Foreign Minister Khadka of supporting the feasibility study of China-Nepal cross-border railway under BRI

• China assured the visiting Nepalese Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka of giving financial aid to Nepal to support the feasibility study of the China-Nepal cross-border railway which was facing uncertainty due to internal political instability in Nepal and COVID-19.

• Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced that surveyors would be sent to Nepal to examine the feasibility of a line linking Kathmandu and the southern Tibetan city of Gyirong.

• The two sides signed an agreement to cooperate on a possible railway line under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2018, but there are long-standing concerns about the cost and technical difficulty of building the line and little concrete progress has been made since then.

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Published date : 12 Aug 2022 04:24PM