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Nepal and India enjoy excellent bilateral relations, and treasure very close, comprehensive and multidimensional relations since centuries. The relations are strengthened further by the age-old ties of history, culture, tradition and religion, and pronounced more in political, social, cultural, religious and economic dealings with each other. To add up the formal flavor to this historic relations, Nepal and India established diplomatic relations on 17 June 1947. The unfathomable commitment to the principles of peaceful coexistence, sovereign equality, and understanding of each other’s aspirations and interests have been the firm foundations on which our subsisting relations have been moving to a new height. In pursuance of Nepal's solemn desire to cultivate and foster the cordial and friendly ties with its neighboring countries, Nepal has been pursuing its long standing position not to allow its territory to be misused by any inimical elements against India and also expects same sort of reciprocity and assurances from her. The open border between the two countries has been a unique paradigm of our ties that rarely exists around the world. Frontier without restriction has greatly facilitated the free movements of our people to each other’s territory. Moreover, such facilitation of the movement of the people has increased more exchanges and interactions at the people-to-people level. In essence, our relations are much more than the sum of treaties and agreements concluded between the two countries. It is therefore natural that our main thrust now has been to further widen and deepen our bonds of ties to the mutual satisfaction of our people. Both countries have common approach and work in tandem in the United Nations, Non-alignment Movement and other international fora on most of the important international issues that have bearing on us. Furthermore, with the establishment of SAARC and BIMSTEC in South Asia, more avenues for enhancing regional cooperation have been identified so as to leap forward towards regional economic integration, which is considered as a precursor to the Economic Union, through harnessing collectively the potentials and complementarities available in the region. The Government of India (GOI) strongly supported peaceful People's Movement of April 2006 for the restoration of full democracy in Nepal. The GOI welcomed the promulgation of the Interim Constitution and the formation of the Interim Legislature in Nepal on 15 January 2007 and the Constituent Assembly elections in Nepal on April 10, 2008. Nepal highly appreciates India for the moral and physical support rendered to the Nepalese people for their arduous tasks to bring a historic change of high proportion in the country and hopes that India will continue to do so in the days to come.