, June 8 -- Nepalese Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has said they refuse to look at India through the distorted, hypersensitive lens of 20th-century geopolitics.

Instead, he said, the Rastriya Swatantra Party wants to shift the entire vocabulary of Nepal-India relations away from geopolitical friction and square it firmly on development and diplomacy.

"We look at India with an open heart, clear eyes, and a single transparent agenda: the economic transformation of Nepal," said the Nepalese Foreign Minister in New Delhi on Sunday.

He had "productive" bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart Dr S. Jaishankar on June 6.

The Nepalese Foreign Minister said when they look across the border, they see a rising India, an India that has funda...