CONTROL OF EVEREST
Peak Belongs To Nepal
(Rec. 10 p.m.) KATMANDU, April 30. The peak of Mount Everest belongs to Nepal, but China has administrative control over the northern approaches to the peak, the Nepalese Prime Minister, Mr B, P. Koirala, said in Katmandu today. Nepalese maps placed Everest firmly on the Chinese-Nepalese border, but Nepal had no claims to the northern approaches, he added. The Chinese claim on the mountain was first made when Chinese leaders presented him with an official map signed by the Chinese Prime Minister, Mr Chou En-lai, in Peking last month. The map showed that the Chinese-Nepalese border dipped five miles into Nepal in the Mount Everest area. Mr Koirala told a press conference that Mr Chou had agreed to accept Nepalese maps on the Everest issue during his threeday visit which ended yesterday. He said Mr Chou was very cooperative. The Chinese had wanted to insert in the Chinese-Nepalese treaty of friendship a nonaggression clause. “We felt it was not necessary and China agreed,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 13
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