UN Secretary-General visiting Everest region today
The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who is currently on an official visit to Nepal, is scheduled to make an observation tour of the Sagarmatha (Everest) region today. After that he will leave for Pokhara in the afternoon.
The UN high official will leave for the Everest region on a Nepali Army helicopter depending on the weather and he will converse with the locals there on topics related to how the climate change has affected their daily lives, it is stated.
After returning from the Everest region, the Secretary-General will hold a meeting with the UN team in Nepal at the UN House in Lalitpur, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated. Following this, he will leave for Pokhara in the afternoon.
Secretary-General Guterres is accompanied by Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Mr Jean Pierre Lacroix, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations to Nepal Ms Hanaa Singer-Hamdy and other officials from the UN Headquarters in New York and the United Nations country team in Nepal.
The UN dignitary arrived here at 1 am on Sunday in connection with his four-day official visit to Nepal at the invitation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’.
Later in the evening, Prime Minister Dahal ‘Prachanda’ hosted an official banquet in honour of the Secretary- General of the United Nations Guterres and his delegation.
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In course of the visit, the UN Secretary-General will also be going to the Annapurna Base Camp and Lumbini.   He is also scheduled to address the joint sitting of the Federal Parliament on October 31, Tuesday, according to the Federal Parliament Secretariat.   Â
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