Friday, February 22, 2019

Austrian Minister Kneissl in town


Kathmandu, Feb. 21: Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria Karin Kneissl has arrived here on Thursday afternoon.

She is on a 3-day visit to Nepal and leading an Austrian delegation for official bilateral visit at the invitation of Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali.

Kneissl will call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Friday. She is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with FM Gyawali and address a talk programme on '60 years of Nepal-Austria Partnership: Energy, Regional and Global Trends' to be hosted by the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

Nepali Ambassador to Austria Prakash Kumar Subedi and Joint-Secretary of the MoFA Ghanshyam Bhandari welcomed Kneissl at the Tribhuvan International Airport.

 She is scheduled to leave Kathmandu on Saturday.


published in The Rising Nepal daily on 22 February 2019. 

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