Kathmandu, Nov. 14: Nepal is
planning to formally ask Japan to open the market for skilled and semi-skilled
Nepali workers.
During the upcoming visit of Foreign
Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali to Japan, Nepal will ask Japan to open the
lucrative labour market for Nepali migrant workers.
Some of the Japanese organisations such
as Japan Agriculture Exchange Council had expressed their desire to take Nepali
youth as trainee workers in the past.
“We primarily would like to seek
Japanese support in infrastructure development such as road, railways and
hydroelectricity projects and ask for the latter’s support in the modernisation
of agriculture. Employment of Nepali workers will also be an important agenda,”
Gyawali said at a press briefing at the Ministry on Wednesday.
He said that the visit will try to
revisit the bilateral relations between the two countries and find the new
areas of cooperation.
“As the dependency on the Official
Development Assistance (ODA) is gradually decreasing, we need to find the new
financing mechanisms in order to fill the gap of infrastructure financing and
achieve the development targets,” said Gyawali.
He will participate in an Investment
seminar and interaction which will be attended by Japanese investors and
businessmen where Nepal will present the potential investment areas and
projects.
Chief Executive Officer of the
Investment Board of Nepal Maha Prasad Adhikari will make a presentation on the
investment opportunities in the country.
FM Gyawali is scheduled to embark on an
official week-long visit of Japan from Saturday.
He said that the bar on Nepali women
from working as domestic workers in the Gulf countries would not be lifted for
the time being.
Indicating towards tightening the
borders and forging more effective collaborations with the agencies like Nepal
Police, the media and Maiti Nepal, the Foreign Minister said that diplomatic
efforts were being made with India to save Nepali women from being trafficked.
He expressed his concerns to the Indian
provision of visa need to Nepali citizens while coming to Nepal via India from
some countries, and said that the matter would be resolved amicably through
dialogue with India.
Talking about the delay in accepting the
report of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India relations, he said
that the report would be accepted soon by both the countries.
“There has been a delay in accepting the
report. It was partly because of the busy schedule of Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. But both the prime ministers will accept it soon and the report
will go into implementation,” said Gyawali.
He said that as Prime Minister KP Sharma
Oli and his Indian counterpart Modi had put their personal as well as
institutional efforts to take the bilateral relations of the two neighbours to
a new height in the modern context, all should hope that the relationship would
be redesigned and redefined in the days to come.
FM Gyawali said that the government
would appoint ambassadors to the remaining countries while the restructuring
the Nepali missions abroad would also be on the cards.
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