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country like India for strict reciprocity can be taken at face value.
The other issue which India has stressed, that of the threat to the country's security which the imports of Chinese goods including arms, to Nepal poses, is a bogey. Certainly China and Nepal have established closer commercial links of late Currently under completion are 37 con- struction contracts with the Chinese being handled by four corporations. And in the absence of oil supplies from India, Nepal has just concluded a deal for oil from China, But none of this is sufficient reason for India to bring up the security issue in this context.