Oli-Modi and SAARC Council of Ministers New York meetings uncertain

Indian PM will be in New York but won’t attend UN General Assembly. Officials are pursuing a meeting in the short window.

Two events that Nepal has given high-importance to on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York this year—a meeting between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and convening the SAARC Council of Ministers—have slim chances to materialise.