Beijing:
China on Thursday played down the significance of the pay a visit to of a best official of the ruling Communist Party of China to Nepal to unite the warring factions of the Nepal Communist Party, saying the Chinese delegation’s talks focused on enhancing inter-celebration interactions.
The higher-level Chinese delegation led by Vice Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Guo Yezhou visited Nepal this week and held separate talks with best leaders of the warring factions of the ruling celebration to patch up variations among them.
The Chinese delegation returned dwelling on Wednesday soon after concluding its 4-day pay a visit to to Kathmandu when the political crisis continued in Nepal.
Asked to disclose the outcome of Guo’s pay a visit to at a media briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin skirted any references to the present political crisis in Nepal and China’s efforts to bring about a rapprochement among Nepal’s feuding leaders.
Wang stated the Chinese delegation met the leaders of each the ruling celebration and the opposition in Nepal and exchanged views on conducting inter-celebration interactions and mutual mastering, advancing sensible Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation and other challenges of mutual concern.
“The Nepalese side congratulated the CPC on the upcoming 100th anniversary of its founding and expressed willingness to deepen traditional friendship,” Wang stated.
Nepal plunged into a political crisis soon after Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, recognized for his pro-Beijing leanings, in a surprise move, advised dissolving the 275-member House on December 20, amidst a tussle for energy with former premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”.
Acting on Oli’s recommendation, President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House the very same day and announced fresh elections on April 30 and May 10, sparking protests from a significant section of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Prachanda, also a co-chair of the ruling celebration.
The Chinese delegation held talks with President Bhandari, Prime Minister Oli, NCP chairs “Prachanda” and Madhav Nepal, former prime minister Jhana Nath Khanal and leader of the Janata Samajbadi Party Baburam Bhattarai.
During his meetings with Oli and Prachanda, the Chinese leader is learnt to have told them to make efforts for reunification as the split in the biggest communist celebration of Nepal will weaken communist movement in South Asia, according to a senior leader of Prachanda-led faction of the NCP.
The Chinese delegation has recommended two probable options to resolve the present political crisis in Nepal, a senior NCP stated in Kathmandu on Tuesday.
Under “Plan A”, the dissolved House could be reinstated via the Supreme Court verdict followed by re-unification of the two factions, he stated on situation of anonymity.
The Chinese leader has advised the senior NCP leaders to give option to Prime Minister Oli if the Parliament gets reinstated.
If the very first alternative is not workable then the “Plan B” would be to contest the mid-term election via electoral alliance amongst all the communist forces of Nepal, the NCP leader added.
The Chinese group also met major opposition Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba and discussed the most recent political developments in the nation.
China’s political profile in Nepal has been on the rise in current years with billions of dollars of investments below its multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, such as the Trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network.