Saturday, October 30, 2021

PM Deuba leaves for London, Khand designated Acting PM

 Kathmandu, Oct. 29

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba left for London on Friday morning to participate in the World Leaders Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow of Scotland.

He heft Kathmandu for London on a Qatar Airways' flight no. QR649 at 10:40 in the morning.

Ministers, party leaders and high level government employees saw off the Prime Minister at the VVIP Lounge of the Tribhuvan International Airport. 

Prime Minister Deuba will attend the official opening ceremony of the COP26 and deliver Nepal's national statement at the World Leaders' Summit. He is also scheduled to attend a reception to be hosted by the UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson on November 1.

He will attend programmes organised by organisations like UK-Nepal Trade and Investment Forum and All-Party Parliamentary Group for Nepal and meet with the representative of the non-resident Nepalis in the UK and Britain-Nepal Society. 

He will return to Kathmandu on  November 4 on the same aircraft's flight no. 652 at 8:30.

Meanwhile, Minister for Home Affairs Bal Krishna Khand is given the responsibility of Acting Prime Minister.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has designated him for the responsibility on the recommendation of Prime Minister Deuba.

  Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 30 October 2021.


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