Powerful nations making Nepal their playground: NA member

KATHMANDU: National Assembly (NA) member Jitendra Narayan Dev has said that the powerful nations were making Nepal their playground.

Speaking during special hour of the National Assembly meeting on Monday, lawmaker Dev of the Nepali Congress (NC) said that the United States and China had spoken selectively on Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and State Partnership Program (SPP) agreements to suit their own interests.

Saying so, he warned that the powerful nations were making Nepal their playground.

He clarified that since Nepal is a sovereign country, it is the right of the government of Nepal and the people of Nepal to decide which deals to make and which to drop. He drew the attention of the top political leadership towards ensuring that Nepal does not become a playground of powerful nations.

The NA member said that the government and political parties should tell other countries that their excessive interest on any issue of Nepal would be considered interference in internal affairs.

He also mentioned that the visit of Chinese Communist Party foreign department chief Liu Jianchao to Nepal and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to India have improved the relationship between political the parties of the two countries.

He added that given geopolitics, it was necessary to build relations at party to party level besides government-government and people-people level.