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The Economic Times/ - News, Dom, 01 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
After scrapped Israel visit, army chief
Gen V K Singh's Nepal tour curtailed
Amid the controversy surrounding the Army chief Gen
V K Singh, the Defence Ministry has cut short duration
of his stay and size of the delegation for a visit to
Nepal scheduled this week. Gen Singh is scheduled to
take part in a regional two-day disaster management
and counter terrorism seminar being held in
Kathmandu from April 4 and chaired by the Nepalese
Army Chief. Last month also, the Defence Ministry had
cancelled Gen Singh's four-day visit to Israel citing the
prevailing political situation in the west Asian and
Middle East for the cancellation of the visit. The stay
and size of the delegation for the visit was curtailed as
it was for a seminar only and not a bilateral visit by the
Chief, Defence Ministry sources said here. There was
no requirement to stay there beyond the duration of
the seminar, they said. Army headquarters ruled out
any possibility of the Army chief cancelling the visit in
view of the curtailment of the duration and downsizing
of his delegation. The Army chief is scheduled to visit
Kathmandu on Wednesday and return on April 6, they
said. After the General lost his battle on the age row in
Supreme Court in February, the Defence Ministry and
the Army chief were mired in fresh controversy over
Gen Singh's claims that he was offered a Rs 14 crore
bribe and he had informed Defence Minister A K
Antony about it. The relations further strained after the
leakage of a top secret letter from the Army chief to the
Prime Minister on poor state of preparedness of the
forces for which the political parties had blamed Gen
Singh. Antony will hold a meeting this week to review
the preparedness of the services and the shortfalls in
specific arms and services.
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