By Our Reporter
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York on the sidelines of the 79thsession of the United Nations General Assembly after making hefty efforts in Nepal and the USA.
The two leaders met on Sunday evening (New York time) and it was a delegation-level meeting between the two Prime Ministers. Foreign Ministers of both the countries and other officials were present in the meeting.
Earlier, it was not sure whether PM Oli could meet Modi even after PM Oli landed in New York.
However, nothing was made public about the issues the two leaders talked about.
PM Oli, who is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Thursday has had a busy schedule during his stay in the USA. He met with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres at the UN headquarters in New York. He also met with his Bhutanese counterpart Daso Chiring Togbe at the office of the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN in New York. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, also met with Prime Minister Oli at the same venue.
According to the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations in New York, during his meeting with Guterres, the latter said that the agenda of climate change was the priority of the UN including drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and addressing vulnerabilities of mountain countries like Nepal. He stressed that climate finance should be adequate for developing countries including the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to focus both on mitigation and adaptation.
The Secretary-General also stressed deeper reforms of the international financial architecture for enhanced financial support to developing countries as well as for simplified access to development finance.
Likewise, Prime Minister Oli recalled the Secretary-General’s recent visit to Nepal including his address to the Parliament, and expressed his happiness to inform that Nepal has enforced the act on transitional justice based on a victim-centric approach, guidance from the Supreme Court and the international norms.
He assured the smooth implementation of the act to resolve the issues of transitional justice once and for all, informed the Mission.
The PM also addressed the World Leaders Forum Organised by Columbia University. However, a programme organised by the Nepali community was put off at the last moment as the supporters of the Rastriya Swatantra Party chanted slogans against PM Oli.
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