KATHMANDU, AUGUST 9

CPN-Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is presently on a visit to Japan, held a meeting with senior leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Toshihiro Nikai today.

LDP is currently the ruling party in Japan.

Nikai is the LDP's former general secretary, former economy, trade and industry minister and is a member in the House of Representatives.

He is also the President of Nepal-Japan Parliamentary Committee. He was accompanied by other senior leaders in Japan during the meeting with the former prime minister of Nepal.

The meeting focused on various aspects of Nepal-Japan relations, according to Dahal's secretariat.

The two leaders discussed ways of further consolidating the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Exchange of high-level visits between the two countries and the establishment of sisterly relations between cities in both countries were also discussed in the meeting.

On the occasion, Dahal urged the Government of Japan to increase the scale of its assistance to Nepal's agriculture, tourism, hydropower and physical infrastructure development sectors.

A version of this article appears in the print on August 10, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.