Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has instructed the government to provide information about the US military partnership program SPP after the lawmakers of the ruling party and opposition raised questions in the parliament.

Speaker Sapkota ruled on this after the lawmakers raised a questions saying,” why Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet sent any correspondence to the US almost a month after the cabinet meeting decided to write a letter saying that Nepal will not participate in the SPP?”
soon after Sapkota said,”My attention has been drawn to what honorable members of the parliament have raised about the SPP agreement. In this regard, I instruct the Government of Nepal to inform about the decision and the status of its implementation.

In today’s Parliament meeting, Maoist Chief Whip Gurung raised a question saying that the government is in the process of passing the SPP under two different names.

Similarly, CPN-UML MP Dr. Bhim Bahadur Rawal also objected to the fact that the ministry of foreign affairs did not wrote a letter to US saying that the SPP would not be implemented despite the decision of the Cabinet.

What is the policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding SPP?