We have seen media reports attributing certain remarks to the Indian Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor on the issue of ‘PLA Integration’ in Nepal Army which are highly distorted and do not reflect Government of India’s position on the issue. It is therefore regrettable that certain political parties are deliberately exploiting these distortions to generate a controversy involving India. In keeping with our overall friendly bilateral relations, India and Nepal share close military and defence ties with long standing institutional linkages between the Armies of the two countries.