Kathmandu, October 5: Home Minister Sudhan Gurung is scheduled to visit India next week. According to officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi, Gurung will leave for New Delhi on October 12. This will be his first foreign visit since being appointed Home Minister.
Gurung will attend the first meeting of the Home Ministers of the member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), scheduled to be held in New Delhi on October 13.
Nepali officials said Home Minister Gurung is also scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from various member states during his visit to India. He is also expected to meet Indian Home Minister Amit Shah.
Earlier, at the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit held in Kathmandu on August 30–31, 2018, leaders of the member states had expressed their commitment to strengthening cooperation and coordination among law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies.
The first BIMSTEC Home Ministers’ meeting is being held in New Delhi at a time when efforts are underway to make regional security cooperation more effective.
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