Kathmandu, Feb. 27 -- Nepal and China have signed a special agreement to strengthen cooperation on ethnic affairs.

Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar, chairman of Nepal's Indigenous Nationalities Commission, and Fan Yu, China's minister and chairman of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, signed the memorandum of understanding amid a function in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

"The National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China and the Indigenous Nationalities Commission of Nepal (hereinafter referred to as the "parties"), with a view to serving the development of China-Nepal Strategic Partnership of Cooperation Featuring Ever-lasting Friendship for Development and Prosperity, promoting cooperation in the field of ethnic affairs bet...