The second meeting of Nepal-China Joint Inspection Committee has ended with an initial signing of four documents intended to facilitate the work procedures related to fieldwork for the third joint inspection of the two countries' boundary, an official at the Nepali foreign ministry said Monday.

The documents, which were initialed on Sunday, included Regulations on Facilitation of the Procedures for Temporary Border Crossing, Specifications on Surveying of Boundary Markers, Specifications on Partial Updating of Maps, and Specifications on Developing the Geographical Information System of Nepal-China Boundary, the Nepalese team leader, Hira Bahadur Thapa, a joint secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters.

"We have initialed the agreements, which will be signed in other meeting. The committee will hold its next meeting in Beijing in March 2006," said Thapa.

He said the documents are intended to guide the joint inspection, which is being planned to begin in April 2006. The fieldwork will be completed by the end of the same year.

"We have formulated the necessary document for joint inspection and the document will be important for commencement of fieldwork," said the leader of Chinese delegation, Li Qingyuan, the advisor of Chinese Foreign Ministry Border Management.

Nepal and China inspected the border in 1979 and 1988 for the first and the second time respectively.

Source: Xinhua