By Our Reporter
Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Nepal.
Gyawali who was in Russia this week held delegation-level talks with Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation in Moscow on Monday.
The two ministers exchanged views on various aspects of bilateral relations, said a press statement issued by the Embassy of Nepal in Moscow.
During the meeting, they underscored the importance of the exchange of the exchange of high-level visits, including the judicial, parliamentary and business exchanges.
Minister Gyawali handed over the invitation of the President of Nepal to the President of the Russian Federation to pay a state visit to Nepal. He also handed over the invitation of the Prime Minister of Nepal to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the statement said.
Minister Lavrov said that the visit of Foreign Minister Gyawali is important in view of the gap of 14 years since the last visit from the Nepali side.
Minister Gyawali stated that this visit was an indication of the importance Nepal attached to its friendship with the Russian Federation, particularly in the fundamentally changed nation context.
The ministers agreed to harness the immense potentials to enlarge the scope and enrich the substance of the bilateral cooperation especially in the areas of investment, trade, tourism, education, energy, infrastructure development, and culture and people-to-people relations, the statement said.
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