Ø India, the U.S. and Japan are set to raise their trilateral
engagement to the ministerial level, with a meeting of External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry planned on the sidelines of the U.N. General
Assembly. Officials of the three countries meet twice a year, but the elevation
of the engagement to the political level will mark a new beginning in the
cooperation, with potential implications for the Indian Ocean region. The
ministerial meeting will fulfil a promise made in the India-U.S. joint
statement of September 30, 2014, after a meeting between Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama.
Ø Nepal adopted its first democratic Constitution, a historic step
for a nation that has seen war, a palace massacre and devastating earthquakes
since a campaign to create a modern state began more than 65 years ago. President
Ram Baran Yadav promulgated the charter intended to unite the country, but it
has already exacerbated divisions in some places with 40 people killed in
protests against it in recent weeks.
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