<Li> The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will carry out regular Dornier sorties over the island nation to look out for suspicious movements or vessels . The Southern Naval Command will facilitate the inclusion of Maldives into the Indian security grid . </Li> <Li> Military teams from Maldives will visit the tri-services Andaman & Nicobar Command (ANC) to observe how India manages security and surveillance of the critical island chain . </Li> <P> Relations between India and Nepal are close yet fraught with difficulties stemming from border disputes, geography, economics, the problems inherent in big power - small power relations, and common ethnic and linguistic identities that overlap the two countries' borders . In 1950 New Delhi and Kathmandu initiated their intertwined relationship with the Treaty of Peace and Friendship and accompanying secret letters that defined security relations between the two countries, and an agreement governing both bilateral trade and trade transiting Indian soil . The 1950 treaty and letters stated that "neither government shall tolerate any threat to the security of the other by a foreign aggressor" and obligated both sides "to inform each other of any serious friction or misunderstanding with any neighboring state likely to cause any breach in the friendly relations subsisting between the two governments", and also granted the Indian and Nepali citizens right to get involved in any economic activity such as work and business related activity in each other's territory . These accords cemented a "special relationship" between India and Nepal that granted Nepalese in India the same economic and educational opportunities as Indian citizens . </P> <P> Relations between India and Nepal reached its lowest during 1989 when India imposed a 13 - month - long economic blockade of Nepal . Indian PM Narendra Modi visited Nepal in 2014, the first by an Indian PM in nearly 17 years . </P>

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