Kathmandu, 18 April: A UN delegation led by Armida Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), called on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayankaji Shrestha at the latter’s’ office in Singha Durbar on Monday. During the meeting, DPM Shrestha informed the visiting UN delegation that Nepal was in the process to graduate from the list of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to developing one by 2026.
The UN delegation, on the occasion, discussed achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) including agriculture, diversification in the export of renewable energy, sustainable tourism, facilitation in trade and sustainable investment for structural transformation. The visiting delegation also pointed out the need to give proper instructions and guidance to the subordinate bodies for effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) and management.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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