PM Deuba to virtually address BIMSTEC

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will virtually address the Fifth Summit of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) taking place in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 30.

PM Deuba will virtually participate the event  alongg  with Nepali delegates Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Narayan Khadka, his Principal Personal Secretary to the Bhan Bahadur Deuba, Nepal government's Chief Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi, Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal and senior officials from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs issuing a press releasse however, said that Minister Khadkaa  will physically participate in the Eighteenth BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting to be held on March 29.

On the sidelines, he is slated to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from BIMSTEC member states. To participate in the meeting, he will leave for Colombo on March 28 and will return to Kathmandu on March 31.

Smilarly, the Nepali delegation led by Joint Secretary and Head of the Regional Organization Division at the Ministry, Ghanshyam Bhandari, will physically participate in the Twenty-Second BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting on March 28.

The Summit and its preceding meetings are being held in Colombo on 28 – 30 March in a hybrid mode. The theme of the Summit this year is ‘BIMSTEC – Towards a Resilient Region, Prosperous Economies, Healthy Peoples’.