China mulling 1,000 MT of fuel supply to Nepal

[Tresbon]

KATHMANDU: Amid a blockade of trade points between India and Nepal by agitating Madhesi parties, China is mulling providing 1,000 metric tonnes of fuel to help the landlocked country tide over an acute shortage of petroleum products during the festival season.

The first shipment is expected to arrive in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu in a few days, said sources at state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC).

Nepal's new government has mobilized various agencies to bring fuel and cooking gas from China in the wake of shortage of essential goods during festivals due to the Madhesi-led agitation in the southern plains.

"Government of China had in the recent past expressed commitment to provide 1,000 metric tonnes of fuel to Nepal on grant basis and the same is being materialized now as Nepal is facing shortage of fuel due to blockade on the Indian border," Pramod Dahal, Prime Minister's press advisor, said.

He said the government has decided to give a no-objection letter to private firms to import oil from China.

Until recently the NOC had a monopoly to import petroleum products from Indian Oil Corporation. The government ended that monopoly by authorizing private parties to import fuel.

The first shipment will be dispatched to Kathmandu via the reopened Rasuwagadhi-Kerung trading point between Nepal and Tibet. The route along the trading point on both sides of the border was badly damaged in the massive earthquake in April.

Nepal and China have reopened two border check points — Tatopani and Kerung — recently.

As supplies from India remained squeezed due the over-a- month-old Madhesi agitation even after the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa to New Delhi this month, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and UCPN-Maoist chief Prachanda have been taking initiatives to import oil from China.

Oli and Prachanda have separately met Chinese ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai and made requests in this regard.

UCPN-Maoist vice-chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha during his recent visit to China discussed the issue with top Chinese officials.

A six-member team from the NOC led by its Deputy General Manager Sushil Kumar Bhattarai has reached Sigatse in Tibet to discuss fuel import with Chinese officials, the sources said.

Another high-level team from Nepal consisting officials from various ministries will soon leave for Beijing to sign a deal in this regard.

Nepal's traders too have urged the Prime Minister in a meeting to open alternate trading routes in the wake of the agitation as it could lead to closure of many industries in the country.

China mulling 1,000 MT of fuel supply to Nepal - Times of India

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

We should also supply Nepal with H-Bombs.

 

[hexagonsnow]

Indian just punish Nepal to China side,What is problem with them? Is there any benifit for India?

 

[Ind4Ever]

Nice. China should supply other goods as well. I think soon Nepal border region would merge with India if communist party of Nepal don't stop discrimination against Hindus

Indian just punish Nepal to China side,What is problem with them? Is there any benifit for India?

Lots... No benefits with Nepal to us!

 

[hexagonsnow]

Nice. China should supply other goods as well. I think soon Nepal border region would merge with India if communist party of Nepal don't stop discrimination against Hindus


Lots... No benefits with Nepal to us!

Sounds like :obey me->alive ,agaist me ->dead.I dont think push Nepal too hard is a good an idea.

 

[Ind4Ever]

Sounds like :obey me->alive ,agaist me ->dead.I dont think push Nepal too hard is a good an idea.

LOL we don't push anyone. Just stopping our interactions will be more than enough. China is most welcome to export everything to Nepal. Long live nepal

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

LOL we don't push anyone. Just stopping our interactions will be more than enough. China is most welcome to export everything to Nepal. Long live nepal

You are taking a pretty wrong gamble here.

 

[Tom99]

Nepal needs to develop a reserve for its future energy security and multi-national energy trades. As an independent country you can't allow another country hold you hostage in time of crisis. Just when Nepal came out of a catastrophic-like earthquake and fuel is needed to rebuild and save people's life, India is taking advantage of this and probably trying to force Nepal to accept some unreasonable deals. Some country just really like to kick you while you are down. Country like that are not trustworthy nor dependable. Nepal needs to see it and learn from it.

 

[Dungeness]

China to donate fuel to Nepal: official
Agence France Presse
Posted at 10/26/2015 7:26 AM

KATHMANDU, Nepal - China will supply Nepal with 1.3 million litres of fuel to ease crippling shortages after protests over a new constitution blocked imports from India, a Nepali official said Sunday.

Scores of trucks have been stranded at a key India-Nepal border checkpoint for around a month, cutting off vital supplies and forcing fuel rationing across the landlocked Himalayan nation.

The shortages led to overnight queues at gas stations in Kathmandu and prompted the state-run oil company to ask foreign firms to airlift supplies into the country as it struggles to recover from devastating earthquakes.

India has had a monopoly on Nepal's fuel supplies for decades but tensions over the blockade have prompted Kathmandu to turn to New Delhi's rival China.

"China has agreed to send us 1,000 metric tonnes, or 1.3 million litres of petrol, as a grant," said Sushil Bhattarai, acting deputy managing director at the state-run Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC).

The fuel will be transported via a land crossing which was repaired and reopened this month after suffering damage in the earthquake that hit Nepal in April.

It is unclear whether China has donated fuel to Nepal in the past, but officials say the two countries have never commercially traded oil or gas.

Nepal has accused India of being behind the ongoing blockade at the bridge checkpoint in Birgunj, 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of the capital, in protest at Kathmandu's handling of a new charter.

The trade hub has been blocked for weeks by protesters from the Madhesi ethnic minority based in Nepal's southern plains, who have close cultural, linguistic and family ties to Indians living across the border.

New Delhi has denied Kathmandu's claims and has urged dialogue with protesters to end the stand-off which started on September 24.

Nepal's Madhesis have long complained of discrimination and say a new federal structure laid out in the country's new constitution adopted last month will leave them under-represented in parliament.

The constitution, the first drawn up by elected representatives, was meant to cement peace and bolster Nepal's transformation to a democratic republic after decades of political instability and a 10-year Maoist insurgency.

But it has instead sparked deadly violence, with more than 40 people killed in clashes between police and ethnic minority protesters.

Work on the new constitution began in 2008 after Maoist rebels laid down arms and entered politics, winning parliamentary elections and abolishing a 240-year-old monarchy. But power-sharing squabbles between parties stymied progress.

Lawmakers finally reached agreement in June, spurred by the massive earthquake two months earlier that killed nearly 8,900 people and left more than half a million people homeless.

 

[shaheenmissile]

Thats what happens when imbeciles come to power,they simply dont know what to do with it.
India being the shining example. Actively pissing off all neighbors.

 

[Dungeness]

Anyone knows the current situation at India-Nepal border? Is Indian brocade still ongoing?

 

[Abotani]

Anyone knows the current situation at India-Nepal border? Is Indian brocade still ongoing?

There is a particular Nepalese member very well versed with the situation- and a neutral,rational one to boot.
@Viva

Last heard the unofficial blockade was lifted the day Nepalese authorities began approaching their Chinese counterparts for co-operation.The Indian truck drivers who had frozen with fear over violence in Nepal suddenly becoming brave enough to risk it as soon as China came in the picture.

 

[Kyle Sun]

I think soon Nepal border region would merge with India if communist party of Nepal don't stop discrimination against Hindus

In your dream!
You guys should learn to keep your feet on the ground .
Do not try to boil the ocean.

 

[TaiShang]

China to supply gasoline to fuel-starved Nepal as India continues to restrict supplies

A Nepalese man reads a newspaper in Kathmandu, Nepal on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. (AP / Niranjan Shrestha)

The Associated Press
Published Sunday, October 25, 2015 11:37AM EDT

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- China will provide Nepal with 1.3 million litres of gasoline to help it cope with severe fuel shortages as a result of restricted supplies from neighbouring India, officials said Sunday.

The gasoline will be brought to a town near the China-Nepal border, said Nepal Oil Corporation official Deepak Baral. It will take about 100 tanker trucks to transport the gasoline to Kathmandu, Nepal's capital.

It would be the first time Nepal would be getting fuel from China. The countries share a border that has the world's highest mountains, but two border crossings were damaged by an April earthquake. One of the crossings reopened this month.

Madhesi ethnic groups have been protesting in southern Nepal against the country's new constitution for weeks, blocking essential supplies from India.

Nepal usually gets all of its fuel from India, which has close cultural ties with the Madhesis.

Protesters have blocked a key Nepal-India border point for weeks. Other crossing points are free of protesters, but India has refused to allow a normal supply of fuel to Nepal.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

In your dream!
You hindus should learn to keep your feet on the ground .
Do not try to boil the ocean.

Nepalese themselves are Hindus (and Nepal is friendly to China), it's important to differentiate between them and Indians.