Several agreements to be inked during Xi’s Nepal visit

Kathmandu: Nepal will roll out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is paying a two-day state visit to the Himalayan nation from Saturday, during which several agreements are set to be inked.
During his 20-hour stay in Kathmandu, Xi will hold a whirlwind round of meetings with Nepali leaders and officials, including President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and former premiers Sher Bahadur Deuba and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Kathmandu Post reported.
Xi will be overseeing the signing of at least a dozen agreements between Nepal and China.
On Friday evening, Prime Minister Oli held an hours-long meeting with several ministers to finalize the pacts to be signed during Xi’s visit. However, there were no details about the agreements.
While a number of articles on the agenda for Xi’s visit were approved by a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, officials have remained tight-lipped on the number of agreements to be signed with the Chinese side as negotiations were ongoing. Both sides exchanged the texts of various agreements as of Friday evening, the Kathmandu Post said.
High on the agenda is the preparation of the detailed project report of the cross-border Kerung-Kathmandu railway on a Chinese grant.