The United States has said that it shares common standpoint with India on several issues pertaining to Nepal.

“Both the US and India agreed that they were going to support this new government and their efforts to strengthen Nepalese democracy. They were also going to call upon the Maoists to cease violent activity and to work to become part of the political process, a peaceful political process,” agency reports quoted State Department spokesman Sean McCormack as saying in a recent press briefing in Washington.

“So I think that really India and the US are of the same mind on this issue,” McCormack further said, informing that Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns talked about Nepal with Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran in their meeting in London recently.

Both the US and India have welcomed the new political scenario in Nepal after the successful people’s movement, assuring to continue their assistance to the new government.

The US and India had stopped their military assistances to Nepal after the royal takeover of February 1, 2005.

Both the countries have also hailed the recent parliamentary declaration that clipped the King’s power and renamed His Majesty’s Government of Nepal as Nepal Government and the Royal Nepalese Army as ‘Nepali Army’ and declared the country as a secular state.