INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, JANUARY 18Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has left for
Uganda, leading a Nepali delegation to attend the 19th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
He left here early this morning via Qatar Airlines.
PM Dahal leaving for Kampala, Uganda on January 18 to attend NAM
PM Dahal requests for Qatar's cooperation to secure Bipin Joshi's
release
The NAM summit is being held in Kampala,
capital city of Uganda, on January 19-20
PM Dahal-led delegation comprises his daughter Ganga Dahal, Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud, Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal and senior
officials of Nepal government.PM Dahal is scheduled to address the summit that is being held under the theme, 'deepening global cooperation
for shared global affluence' on Friday
He is attending the special ceremony to be organized by the Ugandan President in honor of the visiting delegation chiefs same day.
In course of the summit, the PM will be holding bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the attending countries
Foreign Minister NP Saud had already left for Uganda for the ministerial meeting on the run up to the main event of the NAM summit.It is
said the 19th summit is to dwell on the ministerial report, review implementation status of the 18th NAM summit and pass a Kampala
declaration.Nepal is a founding member of NAM and has been attending the NAM summit actively since establishment
Non-alignment is one of the fundamental foreign principles of Nepal
NAM was established in 1961.PM Dahal will return home on January 21.
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