尼泊尔外交部长希希尔·哈纳尔表示,尼印关系目前非常良好,且合作领域正在不断拓宽。他表示,加德满都正通过贸易、互联互通和能源等领域,与两个邻国开展务实合作。
Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said ties with India are currently excellent and widening in scope. He said Kathmandu is pursuing pragmatic cooperation with both neighbours through trade, connectivity and energy.
尼泊尔外交部长希希尔·哈纳尔在纽约表示,尼泊尔与印度保持着“极好”的关系,并采取“务实”态度与新德里打交道,重点关注机遇而非挑战。他表示,政治关系有时可能会出现“起伏”,但补充说目前关系处于非常良好的阶段。
Nepal has an "excellent" relationship with India and is taking a "pragmatic" approach with New Delhi by focusing on opportunities rather than challenges, Nepal Foreign Affairs Minister Shisir Khanal said in New York. He said political ties may see an "ebb and flow" at times, but added that the relationship is currently in a very good phase.
哈纳尔周四在亚洲协会的一次对话中发表上述言论,他还谈到了尼泊尔如何处理与印度和中国的关系。他表示,加德满都正在摒弃意识形态路线,转而专注于实际合作领域,特别是贸易、互联互通和能源。
Khanal made the remarks during a conversation at Asia Society on Thursday, where he also spoke about how Nepal is managing its ties with both India and China. He said Kathmandu is moving away from an ideological approach and is instead concentrating on practical areas of collaboration, especially in trade, connectivity and energy.
针对亚洲协会全球总裁兼首席执行官凯文·拉德关于印度总理莫迪与尼泊尔新政府关系的提问,哈纳尔表示:“极好,我会这么说。我们进行了几次高层互访和交流,我在这里纽约也刚会见了印度外交部长(苏杰生)。”哈纳尔表示,印尼关系具有“多维性质”,尼泊尔三分之二的总贸易额与印度发生。“两国文化和社会关系也非常牢固。在政治层面,有时往往会有起伏。但目前,我认为我们拥有极好的关系之一,”他说。
"Excellent, I'd say. We have had a few high-level visits and exchanges, and I just met Indian External Affairs Minister (S Jaishankar) here in New York as well," Khanal said in response to a question from Asia Society Global President and CEO Kevin Rudd on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's relationship with Nepal's new government. Khanal said India-Nepal ties have a "multidimensional nature", with two-thirds of Nepal's total trade taking place with India. "The cultural and social relationships are very strong between the two countries as well. On the political front, sometimes there often tends to be ebb and flow. But right now, I think we have one of the excellent relationships," he said.
苏杰生周三在印度常驻联合国代表团会见了哈纳尔。双方回顾了自今年6月在新德里上次会晤以来的双边事态发展,包括发展伙伴关系和能源合作方面的进展。
"Excellent, I'd say. We have had a few high-level visits and exchanges, and I just met Indian External Affairs Minister (S Jaishankar) here in New York as well," Khanal said in response to a question from Asia Society Global President and CEO Kevin Rudd on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's relationship with Nepal's new government. Khanal said India-Nepal ties have a "multidimensional nature", with two-thirds of Nepal's total trade taking place with India. "The cultural and social relationships are very strong between the two countries as well. On the political front, sometimes there often tends to be ebb and flow. But right now, I think we have one of the excellent relationships," he said.
关于尼泊尔与其邻国的关系,Khanal指出,尼泊尔政治中的意识形态分歧曾在处理与印度和中国的关系时起到了一定作用。他说:“我们真正注重的是在双边关系中摒弃意识形态上的分歧,而是专注于务实领域的合作。”他还表示,与邻国之间必然存在诸如边界问题等争议性因素,但尼泊尔目前的做法是关注合作机会而非挑战。他补充说:“在能源贸易方面,我们看到了非常积极的进展——因为尼泊尔的经济高度依赖进口,几乎所有商品都需要从国外购买。”
Jaishankar held talks with Khanal at the premises of India's Permanent Mission to the UN on Wednesday. The two leaders reviewed bilateral developments since their last meeting in Delhi in June this year, including progress in development partnership and energy cooperation. On Nepal's ties with its neighbours, Khanal said ideological differences in Nepali politics had earlier played some role in dealing with India and China. "One of the things that we really focused on is instead of being very ideological about our relationship, just focusing on pragmatic areas of collaboration," he said. He added that with neighbours there will "obviously" be contentious issues such as borders, but said Nepal's current approach is to look at opportunities rather than challenges. "So we're seeing really good positive momentum on energy trade because our economy is very import-dependent. We pretty much import everything," he said.
在亚洲协会的开幕致辞中,Khanal指出,虽然尼泊尔在印度和中国的面前显得规模较小,但这不应限制其发展雄心。他说:“邻国的规模是地理因素决定的,但这绝不能成为我们发展目标的上限。尼泊尔其实并不小,而且拥有重要的战略位置。”谈到与印度的关系时,Khanal表示尼泊尔的目标是将两国之间的“邻近关系转化为实际的经济合作”。尼泊尔与印度的五个邦(北阿坎德邦、北方邦、比哈尔邦、西孟加拉邦和锡金邦)接壤,边境长度超过1700公里,这些邦的人口总和超过4亿。此外,尼泊尔还拥有肥沃的塔赖平原。Khanal表示,在“加强互联互通、淡化边界分歧”的政策指导下,尼泊尔正朝着“相互依存”的方向发展。
In his opening remarks at Asia Society, Khanal said Nepal may appear small when placed next to India and China, but added that this should not limit its ambition. "Our neighbours' scale is a fact of geography; it must never become the ceiling of our ambition. Nepal is not small. Nepal is strategically positioned," he said. On India, he said Nepal's focus is on turning "proximity into production". Nepal shares an open border of more than 1,700 kilometres with five Indian states — Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim — home to more than 400 million people. Alongside this market is Nepal's fertile Tarai, and Khanal said that, guided by a policy of "thick connectivity and thin borders", the country is moving towards "structured reciprocal interdependence".
卡纳尔表示,尼泊尔的常年河流拥有43吉瓦(Gigawatts)的具有经济可行性的水力发电潜力。他称,如果到2035年将发电能力提升至28,000兆瓦(Megawatts),尼泊尔可以通过向印度出口清洁能源,进而将电力输送到孟加拉国,从而推动该地区的工业脱碳进程。他还指出,全球及印度的企业如果希望建立稳定、可靠的供应链,可以在尼泊尔的边境经济特区开展制造业活动——这些特区能够提供持续的低成本绿色电力以及有利的国际市场准入条件。谈到与中国的外交关系时,卡纳尔表示尼泊尔采取的是务实、以商业为导向的外交策略,注重长期的发展韧性。他说:“我们的目标不仅仅是打通通往北方的通道,而是将尼泊尔从一个内陆国家转变为一个与外界紧密相连的经济体。我们并不认为尼泊尔的北部和南部发展路线之间存在竞争关系;相反,我们认为尼泊尔连接着世界上两个最大的市场,拥有近30亿的人口。我们的雄心是将这一地理优势转化为商业和发展的机遇。”
Khanal said Nepal's perennial rivers have 43 gigawatts of economically viable hydropower potential. By scaling up to 28,000 megawatts by 2035, he said, Nepal can support regional industrial decarbonisation by exporting clean electricity to India and then onwards to Bangladesh. He said global and Indian firms looking for resilient supply chains could benefit from manufacturing in Nepal's border special economic zones through continuous low-cost green power and favourable international market access. On China, he said Nepal's approach is pragmatic, commercially grounded and focused on long-term resilience. "Our objective is not simply to open roads to the north; it is to transform Nepal from a landlocked economy into land-linked economy. We do not see our northern and southern corridors as competing directions. We see Nepal, land-linked to two of the world's largest markets, home to nearly three billion people. Our ambition is to turn this geography into gateway for commerce and opportunity," he said.
卡纳尔的讲话强调了尼泊尔当前的外交政策重点:即与印度和中国的务实合作,其中贸易、能源、互联互通以及市场准入是这一战略的核心。他表示,尽管两国之间的政治关系有时会出现波动,但尼泊尔与印度的合作关系依然十分牢固。
Khanal's remarks presented Nepal's current foreign policy approach as one centred on practical cooperation with India and China, with trade, energy, connectivity and market access at the centre of that strategy. He said ties with India are strong at present, even if politics can sometimes see an "ebb and flow". With PTI Inputs