02-26-2005, 04:04 AM
Asia Security Monitor No. 115, February 25, 2005
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
http://www.afpc.org
Editor: Ilan Berman
Associate Editor: Lisa-Marie Shanks
February 13:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Worried over Nepal's deepening turmoil and authoritarian drift, India has cut off military aid to the government of King Gyanendra, the Associated Press reports. Since dismissing the government and declaring a state of national emergency on February 1st, the Nepalese government has rolled back individual freedoms and deployed its military against the country's massive Maoist rebel movement. The moratorium comes as a major blow to Katmandu, which has received $93 million in military aid from New Delhi over the past three years. Nepalese officials, however, remain defiant; a day earlier, the South Asia Tribune had reported that <b>King Gyanendra has intimated a cessation of military assistance from New Delhi could force Katmandu to reconsider the 40-year-old treaty between the two countries, and turn to Pakistan or China for arms supplies.</b>
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American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
http://www.afpc.org
Editor: Ilan Berman
Associate Editor: Lisa-Marie Shanks
February 13:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Worried over Nepal's deepening turmoil and authoritarian drift, India has cut off military aid to the government of King Gyanendra, the Associated Press reports. Since dismissing the government and declaring a state of national emergency on February 1st, the Nepalese government has rolled back individual freedoms and deployed its military against the country's massive Maoist rebel movement. The moratorium comes as a major blow to Katmandu, which has received $93 million in military aid from New Delhi over the past three years. Nepalese officials, however, remain defiant; a day earlier, the South Asia Tribune had reported that <b>King Gyanendra has intimated a cessation of military assistance from New Delhi could force Katmandu to reconsider the 40-year-old treaty between the two countries, and turn to Pakistan or China for arms supplies.</b>
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