12 student organisations submit memo to PM

KATHMANDU: A delegation of 12 student organisations affiliated to various political parties handed over a memorandum to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at his office on Friday. The student organisations urged the PM to adopt diplomatic means to resolve the ongoing controversy on the Nepal-India border.

On receiving the memoranda, the Prime Minister made it clear that the government had already made a series of diplomatic efforts to solve the issue. Prime Minister Nepal expressed his commitment to the issues of nationalism. He informed that Foreign Secretary Gyan Chandra Acharya asked Rakesh Sood, the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, to discuss on the matter.

He said that a team, including border experts and government officials, had been deployed at the site.