Kathmandu, Mar. 9: Foreign Secretary Murari Raj Sharma has said that Bhutan’s political will can lead to the solution of the decade long Bhutanese refugees problem.

“This time they are more positive and enthusiastic for quick solution of the problem,” he said at a press meet organised at the Ministry this afternoon.

“We want second category of the refugees to join the first,” Sharma told the journalists who were invited to offer their input on Nepal’s stand during a Nepal-Bhutan bilateral meeting of secretarial level beginning March 12.

The third ministerial level talks categorised the refugees into four: first the genuine Bhutanese, second those who willingly left the country, third the criminals and the last non-Bhutanese.

About a hundred thousand Bhutanese refugees have been taking shelter in the eastern Nepal since 1990 when they were exiled from Bhutan.

“This meeting is a preparation for the upcoming ministerial level talks,” said Sharma who declined to mention the date for the bilateral talks. This meeting that was initially scheduled to be held on March 8 would work on verification process that would be the beginning of the end of the problem, he said.

Bhutanese authority requested Nepal to defer the March 8 meeting by four days citing Indian foreign secretary’s visit to Bhutan during that time.

Sharma ruled out the involvement of a third party in the bilateral negotiation. “When we are trying to negotiate bilaterally, we would not think of third party,” he said.