Kathmandu, October 1
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has lauded Nepal’s unparalleled contributions to the global peacebuilding missions and expressed the United Nations’ commitment to work in partnership for the socio-economic development of Nepal. The UN Secretary-General said this in a meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, who has been in New York since last Sunday to attend the 74th Session of United Nations General Assembly, at the UN headquarters on Monday.
Minister Gyawali had met the top UN official to extend Nepal government’s invitation to the Sagarmatha Sambaad, an interactive event it wants to host in March next year.
The Secretary-General expressed thankfulness for the invitation and positively responded to the gesture.
Gyawali, apprising Guterres of Nepal’s progress to the path of social and economic development with political stability, he said the Nepal government was effortful towards attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Nepal is hell-bent to achieve the global development goals despite short of resources and means, he pledged. Minster Gyawali further informed that the mountainous and small island countries like Nepal have engrossed their efforts to tackle the disproportionate effects of the global challenge of climate change.
Nepali delegation leader Gyawali also took it as an opportunity to extend gratefulness to UN secretary-General for hosting a high-level meeting on a global health concern, a high-level political forum for sustainable development, investment for development, updated evaluation of millennium development goals and high-level meeting on climate change. He also assured Nepal’s commitment to work in partnership with the UN in any of the areas.
Also present on the occasion was the Under-Secretary-General of the UN Department of Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Under-Secretary-General of the UN Peace Operations Coordination Department, Atul Khare and Nepali diplomats.
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