KATHMANDU, May 24 – Senior Nepalese and Chinese officials are discussing measures to check crossborder criminal activities and unauthorised trade, a Nepalese home ministry official said Monday.
A meeting of senior Nepalese and Chinese officials, which began in Kathmandu Sunday, is expected to conclude Tuesday with the signing of a memorandum of understanding, the official said.
Nepal shares a 1,414 kilometre (884 mile) border with Tibet, which China occupied in 1951 and views as part of its own territory.
The frontier runs through the Himalayan region where the world’s tallest summit, Mount Everest, and other peaks measuring over 8,000 metres (26,244 feet) are located.
The meeting is focusing mainly on the control of trans-Himalayan trespassing by Tibetans and Nepalese through border towns without travel documents, the official said.
“The growing Maoist activities, smuggling of arms, trafficking in endangered wildlife and herb species … along the trans-Himalayan frontier between Nepal and Tibet are the main items on the agenda at the bilateral meeting,” another home ministry official said.
