Kathmandu, June 12
President Bidya Devi Bhandari is scheduled to address the 106th session of International Labour Conference in Geneval of Switzerland on Thursday.
The President will leave Kathmandu on Tuesday for the function to be organised by the International Labour Organisation.
In her address, “the President will underline the progress made by Nepal in the front of women’s participation and representation in politics as well as in the world of work and highlight the efforts made to address the challenges in that trajectory” as the theme of the Conference is “women at work”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.
Bhandari is one among three heads of states invited for the Conference, two others being heads of states from Malta and Mauritius.
“This will be the first time that Head of the State of Nepal has been invited by the ILO to address the summit. Nepal became member of the ILO in 1966,” the MoFA statement read.
The President will be accompanied by Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi, her private secretary, Dr. Bimala Poudyal Rai and other senior officials of the MoFA.
Bhandari will return home on June 18.
