Press briefing note for the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit 31 August 2018, Kathmandu Dear Colleagues from the Media I welcome you all to this press briefing. I am here today to share with you the outcome of the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit. I wish to inform you that the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit successfully concluded today. As you all know this Summit is [ Read More … ]
Opening Statement by the Right Honourable K.P. Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal at the Inaugural Session of the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit Kathmandu, 30th August 2018 Your Excellency Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Your Excellency Lyonpo Tshering Wangchuk, Chief Advisor of the Interim Government of the Kingdom of Bhutan, Your Excellency Shri Narendra Modi, Prime [ Read More … ]
Press briefing on the 16th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting 29 August 2018, Kathmandu Dear friends from the Media Good Evening to you all. I welcome you all to this briefing. I begin by thanking you for the continuous cooperation ever since we began engaging in the BIMSTEC Summit process. Today, I am here to brief you on the Sixteenth BIMSTEC Ministerial [ Read More … ]
Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Namaste and good morning! I am pleased to welcome all of you to this Ministerial Meeting. I would like to express my deep appreciation to Your Excellencies, the Honorable Foreign/External Affairs Ministers of the BIMSTEC Member States, for accepting our invitation to attend this Meeting. I wish you all a very pleasant stay in Kathmandu. This meeting [ Read More … ]
Press Briefing Note 19th Session of BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting 28 August 2018, Kathmandu Dear Friends from the media, Good evening to you all. Thank you very much for joining this briefing. At the beginning, I would like to thank all the media friends for the cooperation and wider publicity of this important event during its preparatory process. I expect [ Read More … ]
Press Release Attention of the Ministry has been drawn to a news report appeared in the Himalayan Times daily today regarding the retreat venue for the 4th BIMSTEC Summit. The news report attributing to a Member State for the change in the venue of the retreat is regrettable and totally baseless. It is up to the host Government to decide [ Read More … ]
Remarks by Hon. Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal as a Chief Guest at a Talk Programme on BIMSTEC: Connecting South and Southeast Asia organized by Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS) Kathmandu, 24 August 2018 Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Dear Dr. Nischal Nath Pandey Ji, Distinguished Speakers, Distinguished Guests, and Ladies [ Read More … ]
Press Release The Fourth Summit meeting of the Heads of State/Government of Member States of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 30 and 31 August 2018. Nepal has assumed the Chairmanship of BIMSTEC after its Third Summit meeting held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar in March 2014. [ Read More … ]
Press Release The Hon’ble Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister for Foreign Affairs, today sent a message of congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi on his assumption of office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. While recalling the existing warm and cordial relations between Nepal and Pakistan ever since the establishment of [ Read More … ]
Press Release The Rt. Hon’bleBidya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal sent a message of condolences today to His Excellency Shri Ram Nath Kovind, President of India on the loss of lives and destruction of property due to recent flooding in Kerala State of India. In her message, she has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives and extended heartfelt [ Read More … ]