The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India issued a joint statement and informed that Nepal-India Foreign Secretary-level bilateral talks will be held on Bhadra 28, 2079 BS.
Although the foreign secretary-level mechanism, which is going to be held after a gap of almost 2 years, has been given the responsibility of solving the border problem between the two countries, there is still confusion about whether the border dispute of Lipulek and Kalapani will be discussed in the talks or not.

Nepal’s Foreign Secretary Bharatraj Paudyal will go to New Delhi on 28 Bhadra 2079 BS., for bilateral talks. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the agenda of the discussion between Paudyal and Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Quatra will be to discuss overall bilateral cooperation, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India has said that they will discuss issues including the commitments made during high-level visits between the two countries.

There has been a border dispute between Nepal and India for a long time. The border problem became more complicated when India issued a new territorial map on Kartik 2076 BS.,including Nepalese land of Kalapani,Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura.Nepal sent a diplomatic note protesting against the action of Nepalese land encroachment. But India kept avoiding the talks and 6 months later built a track unilaterally in the region. After that, Nepal released a new map covering the territory of Kalapani, Lipulek and Limpiyadhura on Jestha 7, 2077 BS. Since then, there has been no discussion on the border dispute between Nepal and India.

India has encroached on Nepal’s border at more than a dozen places including Kalapani, Dashagaja and Susta.