Kathmandu: India and Nepal are set to hold high-level meet here on August 17, The Kathmandu Post reported.
The eighth meeting between of the Nepal-India Oversight Mechanism has been seen as a first step towards easing a stand-off between the two countries triggered by a boundary dispute, The Kathmandu Post said.
Nepal recently completed the process of redrawing the country's political map through a Constitutional amendment, incorporating strategically important Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas which India maintains belong to it.
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India termed the territorial claims by Nepal as "untenable" the "artificial enlargement".
The India-Nepal bilateral ties came under strain after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated an 80-km-long strategically crucial road connecting the Lipulekh pass with Dharchula in Uttarakhand on May 8.
Nepal reacted to the inauguration of the road claiming that it passed through Nepalese territory. India rejected the claim asserting that the road lies completely within its territory.
