Press Release Celebration of the ‘Day of Vesak’ (Buddha Purnima) The International Day of Vesak (Buddha Purnima) was celebrated at the United Nations Headquarters in New York today by organizing a special commemorative event. The President of the General Assembly Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés; Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General, Ms. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti; and representatives from Bangladesh, [ Read More … ]

Press Release Nepal and Eswatini establish formal bilateral diplomatic relations Nepal and the Kingdom of Eswatini entered into the formal diplomatic ties today. It marks the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations of Nepal with 166 countries around the world. The Permanent Representatives of Nepal and Eswatini to the United Nations, Ambassadors Mr. Amrit Bahadur Rai and Mr. Melusi Martin Masukurespectively, [ Read More … ]

Press release Nepal has been elected as a member of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), one of the functional commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the central drug policy-making body within the United Nations system, from the Asia-Pacific region for the term 2020-2023 in an election held at the United Nations Headquarters this afternoon. [ Read More … ]

Press Release Hon. Mr. Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Minister for Forests and Environment arrived in Doha, yesterday evening, leading a high-level Nepali delegation to the 16th Ministerial Meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) held in Doha from 30 April to 1 May 2019. Upon arrival at the Hamad International Airport, Hon. Minister and the members of Nepali delegation were received [ Read More … ]

Statement by Hon. Mr. Shakti Bahadur Basnet Minister for Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal 16th ACD Ministerial Meeting Doha, Qatar, 1st May 2019 Mr. Chairman My Fellow Ministers of ACD Member States Secretary General of ACD Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning, Namaste! It is my immense pleasure to share some thoughts at this sixteenth meeting of Asia [ Read More … ]

Press Release His Excellency Mr. Prakash Kumar Suvedi presented the Letters of Credence accrediting him as the Ambassador of Nepal to the Republic of Croatia to Her Excellency Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of the Republic of Croatia, amidst a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 23, 2019. On the occasion Ambassador Suvedi conveyed the personal greetings to [ Read More … ]

Press Release on the First Nepali Professionals Summit Meeting, 2019 On the occasion of the completion of sixty years of Nepal-Germany diplomatic relations, the Embassy of Nepal in Germany, the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and GIZ/CIM jointly organized the first Nepali Professionals’ Summit in Berlin on April 16-17, 2019. E. Mr. Ramesh Prasad Khanal, Ambassador of Nepal to Germany, Mr. Dirk Augustin, Director of South [ Read More … ]