Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj will be in Nepal on a three-day visit from July 25. This is her second standalone trip abroad after being appointed to the post. During her visit, Swaraj will call on Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and also meet leaders from various political parties, including Maoist leader Prachanda.
Sushma Swaraj is scheduled to have a joint commission meeting with her counterpart Mahendra Bahadur Pandey on the second day of her visit to go over the entire gamut of India-Nepal relations. The joint commission will be meeting after a span of 23 years and the discussion has been structured into five clusters. The five clusters comprise of political, security and border issues; economic co-operation and infrastructure; trade and transit; power and water resources; culture, education and media.
The current bilateral trade between the two nations is $4.7 billion and India accounts for 47% of the foreign direct investment in Nepal.