New Delhi, June 7 -- Nepal wants to handle its border disputes with India through existing bilateral mechanisms and without any mediation by others, Nepal's foreign minister Shisir Khanal said on Sunday, endorsing New Delhi's rejection of any involvement of a third party in the matter.

Khanal, who was speaking to reporters at the end of a visit that saw him holding talks with external affairs minister S Jaishankar to reset bilateral ties following Nepal's general election in March, outlined his government's intention to shift India-Nepal relations "away from geopolitical friction" and root it in development diplomacy.

The bilateral partnership, he said, shouldn't be "constrained by the anxieties of the past", and instead driven by the p...