No lethal arms from China:
RNA (news update)
A spokesman of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) has claimed that
it hasn’t received any lethal arm from China this week.
In an interview with BBC Nepali Service Friday evening, spokesman
of the RNA Brigadier General Dipak Kumar Gurung said there were
no rifles in the arms consignment that was delivered to the RNA
this week. He said that the consignment included some signal equipment.
“We can’t give details of the arms that the RNA has
received,” he added.
Gurung said China had agreed to provide arms assistance to Nepal
during the visit to the northern neighbour by RNA chief, General
Pyar Jung Thapa, in October this year. “China may have agreed
to provide arms to Nepal due to improvement in bilateral relations,”
he added.
Reports said some 18 truckloads of arms entered Nepal via Kodari
highway from China early this week.
The latest arms assistance from China has come at a time when
major suppliers of military assistance to Nepal, India, US and
UK, have suspended their ‘lethal military support’
to Nepal in the aftermath of the royal takeover of February this
year.
“The latest military assistance from China has symbolic
importance,” said C K Lal, a Kathmandu-based political commentator.
“The assistance has also showed that Nepal can bank on Chinese
assistance whenever she is in crisis,” he added. nepalnews.com
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