‘The world knew about our unique peace process’

PM Oli returns from UNGA

Kathmandu, Oct. 4: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that his government would stay for full term and would become even more powerful after that.

“This government will stay for five years’ tenure, will hold general elections and will emerge as more power political party of the country,” he said on Thursday upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) from New York of the United States of America.

He had left Kathmandu for New York on September 22 to participate in the 73^rd General Assembly of the United Nations. Meanwhile, he also paid an official visit to the North American country Costa Rica.

PM Oli said that everyone had seen the symptoms, speed and spirit of the government, and it had performed well in both domestic and international fronts.

“We have taken the bilateral relations with India and China to newer heights while in the recently concluded UN General Assembly, we focused on multilateralism, and presented Nepal’s aspirations, achievements in the peace process and priorities,” he said.

According to him, it was necessary to present the achievements of the unique peace process to the world. The government also wanted to transmit the message, from the high-level, of successful implementation of constitution, elections, political stability and government’s long-term vision and initiatives for development.

He said that while expressing commitments to the principles and objectives of the UN Charter, he supported the UN’s role in maintaining world peace, goodwill and development.

“However, of the three major pillars of the UN Charter, development is weak and unbalanced. Therefore, I specially stressed on minimizing poverty and inequality with international cooperation, technology transfer and investment,” said the PM.

“I draw attention of the world towards the problems and issues of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Land-Locked Countries (LLCs) and demanded that more international supports should be channelled to them. I also pointed that more resources were needed to achieve the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with the mitigation of the effect of the climate change,” he added.

PM Oli had appreciated the UN for its role in addressing the poor countries around the globe, and urged for the international support to help Nepal in achieving the objectives of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’ campaign.

He maintained that he appealed to the world leaders for their support in intensifying the development work in the country as well as graduating it to the developing nation from current LDC status and achieving the SDGs.

“I have thanked the leaders of the friendly nations who have long been supporting Nepal in its development and sent message that the country is ready to receive Foreign Direct Investment (FDI),” said the PM.

Nepal organised an informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the SAARC member nations in the capacity of the president of the regional organisation. The meeting deliberated on making the SAARC process more effective.

On the occasion, Nepal and Madagascar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish bilateral relations. With this, Nepal has established bilateral relations with 162 countries.

PM Oli paid an official visit to Costa Rica after the UN-GA at the invitation of the Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada. He observed hydroelectricity and wind energy projects.

The UN University of Peace in San Jose of Costa Rica awarded an Honorary Doctorate to PM Oli.

At the sidelines of the UN-GA, he met with the US President Donald Trump, UN General Secretary Antonio Gutteres, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Swiss President AlainBerset, British PM Theresa May and Cambodian PM Hun Sen and discussed about intensifying development cooperation and relations at peoples level.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 5 October 2018.