New Delhi: Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla held a meeting with Nepal’s envoy to India Nilambar Acharya in New Delhi.

The meeting which was “the first formal” interaction between the two was in “line with Government of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and demonstrates the priority India attaches to its close and multi-faceted relationship with Nepal,” the government statement said.

Both expressed satisfaction at the positive trajectory of relations with “frequent highest level political exchanges and interactions, and expeditious implementation of major connectivity and infrastructure projects of bilateral cooperation,” the statement said. Shringla underlined India’s commitment in taking forward ties “based on mutual trust and benefit,” it said.