Before this, the UN Secretary General held a separate meeting with
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka and
Minister for Foreign Affairs NP Saud.
Guterres arrived in
He was received and welcomed by Foreign Minister NP Saud and
senior foreign ministry officials at the
Secretary General Guterres is accompanied by
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean Pierre Lacroix, Resident
Coordinator of the United Nations to Nepal Hanaa Singer-Hamdy and other officials
from the UN Headquarters in
Guterres arrived in
It’s his second visit to
After meeting the prime minister, Guterres will leave for the
International Convention Centre, New Baneshwar where he will meet former prime
minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Guterres, will then meet former prime minister and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli.
As per the itinerary, he will reach the Office of the President
and call on President Ramchandra Paudel at 4 pm and will leave for
In the evening, the UN secretary general will attend a dinner
reception hosted by Prime Minister Dahal at Hotel Soaltee.
On Monday early morning, Guterres will depart for the Everest
region by a Nepal Army helicopter subject to the weather conditions. If the
weather permits to fly, the UN chief will reach Hotel Everest View around the
Everest region and then he will speak to residents about the impacts of climate
change on their daily livelihood.
After completing his engagements in the Everest region, he will hold a meeting
with the UN Country Team in
The visiting UN Secretary General says it’s
essential to support
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on
Tuesday called on the global community to support
Talking to the media at Pokhara airport following the
conclusion of a trip to the city, the visiting UN secretary general said, “It’s
time to stop the looting and generating climate change because we must preserve
these wonderful mountains and these wonderful glaciers.”
“And it’s essential to support
He further appealed to the
international community to show effective solidarity that there is much more
funding for adaptation, building resilience, protecting the communities, and
that the loss and damage fund is finally put to work to the benefit of those
populations.
“The reason for my visit was exactly to send a clear message
to the world: It's essential to stop this war against nature,” he said.
Guterres, who arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday midnight on a
four-day official visit, reached the
Everest region on Monday morning to see firsthand the consequences of the
climate crisis in the
He spoke to locals of ward 4 of the
The UN Secretary General left
for Lumbini from Pokhara. He is scheduled to address a joint sitting of the
Parliament in the evening.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in
He was
received and welcomed by Foreign Minister NP Saud and senior foreign ministry
officials at the
Secretary
General Guterres is accompanied by Under-Secretary-General for Peace
Operations, Jean Pierre Lacroix, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations to
Nepal Hanaa Singer-Hamdy and other officials from the UN Headquarters in
Guterres
arrived in
It’s his
second visit to
His official
engagements will begin at 1:30 pm as he will call on Foreign Minister Saud
which will be followed by a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka.
After a brief
courtesy call on DPM Khadka, Guterres will meet Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha at 2 pm. Following the meeting,
the UN Secretary General Guterres will meet Prime Minister Dahal at the Prime
Minister’s Office.
As per the
itinerary of his visit, both Dahal and Guterres will speak to the media
following the meeting.
Both Dahal and
Guterres will discuss several issues related to
After meeting
the prime minister, Guterres will leave for the International Convention
Centre, New Baneshwar where he will meet former prime minister and Nepali
Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Guterres, will
then meet former prime minister and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli.
As per the
itinerary, he will reach the Office of the President and call on President
Ramchandra Paudel at 4 pm and will leave for
In the
evening, the UN secretary general will attend a dinner reception hosted by
Prime Minister Dahal at Hotel Soaltee.
On Monday
early morning, Guterres will depart for the Everest region by a Nepal Army
helicopter subject to the weather conditions. If the weather permits to fly,
the UN chief will reach Hotel Everest View around the Everest region and then
he will speak to residents about the impacts of climate change on their daily
livelihood.
After
completing his engagements in the Everest region, he will hold a meeting with
the UN Country Team in
On early
Tuesday, he will fly to Annapurna Base Camp where he will speak to local
residents on the impacts of climate change on their daily livelihood. After
visiting the Annapurna Base Camp, he will return to Pokhara and is expected to
speak to the media at the Pokhara airport before leaving for Bhairahawa.
As per the
itinerary, Guterres will reach Lumbini on Tuesday morning where he will be
welcomed by Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Sudan Kirati,
Chief Minister of Lumbini Province Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary, Vice-Chairman of
Lumbini Development Trust Lyarkal Lama and senior government officials.
In Lumbini,
the UN secretary general will visit the sanctum of
After these
engagements, Guterres is also planning to speak to the media and send a message
of peace. Upon completion of his engagements in Lumbini, the UN chief will
return to
After
delivering a half-hour-long statement, Guterres is also planning to speak to
the media.
On Wednesday
morning he will depart from
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