Delegates of the Asian Forum for Himan Rights urged the Nepalese prime minister to resume the bilateral talks with Bhutan in the upcoming SAARC summit.
When Bhutan is hosting the first ever summit of the South Asian Association for the Regional Copertion on April, delegates of this Manila based human rights watchdog met the Nepalese Prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and urged to resume the bilateral talkls with Bhutan.
The delegates expressed concern over the stalled talk between the governments of Nepal and Bhutan which has not moved a step ahead since 2004. According to prime minister’s advisor Rajan Bhattarai, Nepal assured delegates that he would pressurize Bhutan to resume talks to make it comply with its previous commitments made in various international forums.
‘He told the delegation that he would raise this issue in informal sessions with Bhutan,” Rajan quoted prime minister as saying.
Dr. DNS Dhakal, Chief Executive of Bhutan National Democratic Party was also present as a delegate.
