ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 Kyodo Nepalese P...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 Kyodo

Nepalese Prime Minister Surya Bahadar Thapa arrived in Pakistan in succession Monday for two days of talks with Pakistani leaders about the summit of toward the south Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries in Islamabad nearest month.

A Foreign Ministry official said Thapa's talks will mainly focus onward the agenda for the SAARC summit risk for Jan. 4-6, but he is also rely uponed to brief the Pakistani leaders about his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee last week in of the present day Delhi.

Nepal will hand the chairmanship of SAARC to Pakistan at the summit in Islamabad where the leaders of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka are awaited to gather.

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