Bilateral agreement on various issues including tourism promotion was signed between the visiting delegation led by Deputy Secretary of the Government of Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Liang Jiyangping and the Nepali delegation here on Friday.

The Chinese delegation arrived on 24 December for the fifth meeting of the Nepal-China (Tibet) Joint Tourism Coordination Committee.

The agreement was signed following discussion held between the two sides on 28 and 29 December .

The agreement includes support for promotion of the Visit Lumbini Year 2012, immediate resumption of Kathmandu-Lhasa Bus service, increasing air services to Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu and supporting mountaineering related activities.

It was agreed on the occasion to hold the next meeting of the Committee in Lhasa of Tibet in September 2012, according to Joint-secretary at the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Bal Krishna Ghimire, who also led the Nepali delegation in the meeting.