CHINESE PREMIER WEN TRANSITING NEPAL SATURDAY TO EMBRRASSMENT OF BHATTARAI GOVT.

CHINESE PM ONLY TRANSITING NEPAL, EMBARRASSMENT FOR BHATTARAI GOVT.

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 13 Jan.: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrives for a rare now scaled down visit five –hour visit Saturday while transiting Nepal en route to Qatar.
Wen will hold consultations with Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai while transiting Nepal to Qatar
His scheduled 3-day official visit from 20 December 2011 was cancelled at the last moment in a major embarrassment for the government of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai who personally broke the news of the visit in an attempt for personal diplomatic triumph for himself and his government.
Bhattarai was trying to take personal credit for the visit by
announcing it unilaterally when such high-level exchanges are normally announced simultaneously by concerned governments.
To worsen matters, Deputy Prime Minister and Maoist Foreign Minister even said the visit was never formally announced
Why did the premier then announce the visit to a select group of jornalists at his residence then?
The host government went further and even claimed the visit laws ‘postponed’ because Wen would be busy with discussions with the year-ending budget exercises.
Wasn’t a top Chinese delegation in town for the visit preparations knowledgeable of the premier’s busy schedule?
Shrestha went to Beijing to create an environment for the visit a apparently Beijing isn’t happy with assurances later by another Deputy Prime Miniter Bijaya Kumar Gachedhar who visited the Chinese capital in .
December.
Wen didn’t meet Gachedhar for security related talks during the visit lthough the Chinese government chief met Shrestha earlier.
As home minister and acting defence minister, the entire security set-up-Nepal Army, two police units and intelligence bureau in controlled by Gachedhar of terai-origin for the first .
first time
Sharat Bhandari, a member of the hill tribe and top official of
Gachedar’s MHFL was hounded out as defence minister after his appointment
‘China is not satisfied with security assurances amid promises of revamp and modernize Police and Nepal Army,” a former diplomat who served in China preferring anonymity said
The Nepal transit of Wen, is a setback and
embarrassment for the Bhattarai government, who is a Maoist.
Chinese government abhors the linkage Nepal communists attempt to gve to the revolution that propelled UCPN (Maoist) to powe r without defeating Royal Nepal Army.
Maoists were imposed on Nepal people with foreign help
especially from India, Europe and USA.
Wen is scheduled to arrive at 11 in h morning and leave for
Qatar at four in the afternoon.
After returning to the capital following consultations, Chinese Ambassador Yang Houlan held consultations this week with the premier
Amid Chinese concerns of activities of Tibetans, 114 were arrested THrsday as they attempted to infiltrate the Valley Thursday in four buses
coming from India—not Tibet
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