Nepal Foreign Minister to visit India next week

By Binod Prasad Adhikari

Kathamandu [Nepal], June 30 (ANI): Nepal's newly formed government's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs; Krishna Bahadur Mahara is set to visit India next week.

Mahara, is visiting India from July 2 to July 4 at the invitation of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Mahara will be holding talks with Swaraj and talk on the issues of mutual interest, according to a statement issued by Nepal's Foreign Ministry late Friday.

The visit is the first foreign visit of a member of the newly formed government under Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of Nepali Congress.

Deuba was elected as 40th Prime Minister of Nepal who took the office on June 7. (ANI)

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