On Thursday, Naravane will receive the honorary rank of general of Nepal Army which will be conferred to him by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari during a function in the President`s Office, according to the Nepal Army.
Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday on a three-day visit to Nepal to meet his counterpart, General Purna Chandra Thapa. The main focus of the meeting will be to strengthen bilateral relations after Nepal-India ties were at an all time low due to the boundary dispute.
On Thursday, Naravane will receive the honorary rank of general of Nepal Army which will be conferred to him by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari during a function in the President`s Office, according to the Nepal Army.
Nepal and India have a historic tradition of conferring the honorary title to each other`s army chief since 1950.
He will meet Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Friday before wrapping up his visit.
Other events in his program also include paying homage at the martyr`s memorial in the Army Pavilion, receiving a guard of honour in the Army Headquarters, holding an official meeting with General Thapa and address student officers at the Army Command and Staff College in Shivapuri near Kathmandu.
General Naravane will be the senior-most Indian official to visit Nepal following the countries` boundary dispute since last November after placing disputed territories in its new political map.
He, however, added a twist in May after India opened a new track linking the Mansarover to the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Nepal protested the opening of the new track by India because the newly constructed road surpasses a tri-juncture between Nepal, India and China.
The Indian road surpasses across Lipulekh, which Nepal claims its own territory which it had protested earlier in 2015 during an agreement between New Delhi and Beijing.
After Nepal`s protest over the new road constructed by India followed by dispute in Kalapani area which is an unsettled boundary row since decades, General Naravane had said that it was in fact China that was creating a flashpoint between Delhi and Kathmandu.
His statement had created huge uproar in Kathmandu.
Many officials believe that Naravane`s statement was one of the major reasons behind Kathmandu`s decision to release the new map on May 20 incorporating Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura which is currently occupied by India.
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