Telegram to the Kingdom of Nepal
(September 25, 1956)

Source: RMRB (Sept. 26, 1956), 1. Other Chinese Text: XHBYK, 94 (Oct. 21,
1956), 196.

On September 20, 1956, the delegations of the Chinese and Nepalese governments signed
an agreement in Katmandu on the maintenance of friendly relations between the PRC and
Nepal and of trade and cultural intercourse between the Tibetan region of the PRC and
Nepal. This superseded all previous treaties between China and Nepal and between Tibet
and Nepal. This agreement was accompanied by several exchanges of notes between the
two countries effecting the withdrawal of Nepalese troops and military personnel from Tibet,
the establishment of consulates-general by each in the other country, and the exchange of
diplomatic envoys, and also a joint communique.

On September 23, King Mahendra sent the PRC a telegram expressing congratulations
at the signing of the agreement, and on September 26, Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya
of Nepal visited China.

King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva,
Katmandu,
The Kingdom of Nepal

Your Majesty:

We have received your congratulatory message on the occasion of the signing
of the Sino-Nepalese Agreement. On behalf of the People’s Republic of China, the

Chinese people, and on my own behalf, I extend sincere thanks to Your Majesty
and to the government and people of the Kingdom of Nepal. May the traditional
friendship between the peoples of China and Nepal become more consolidated and
be developed with each passing day on the basis of this Agreement signed in
accordance with the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.1 May Your Majesty
enjoy good health.
(Signed as Chairman of CPC and dated)

Note

1. See text Jan. 28, 1955(2), vol. I, note 1.