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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