04. Apr 2009
Tibet to provide annual aid to Nepal
(TibetanReview.net; Xinhua) The TAR is to provide annual aid worth three million Yuan (US UK£297,000; US$441,000; EUR€330,000) to northern Nepal for five years beginning from 2009, reported Xinhua. "The economic development of the northern Nepal is relatively backward due to inconvenient transportation. We will offer grain and basic commodities to Nepal after further negotiations with Nepali government", said Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the TAR government, after meeting Nepali Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav in Lhasa. Mr Yadav, in turn, vowed that his country would stick to its one-China policy and would be against any "anti-China activities".