Kathmandu, May 24
Gyan Chandra Acharya, Nepal's
former ambassador to the United Kingdom and United Nations Under-Secretary
General, said that Nepal should adopt active, balanced and dynamic foreign
policy in the rapidly changing international scenario, which is not easy.
"It demands
meticulous planning and execution," he said while speaking at the Nepal
Foreign Service Day 2025 organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in
Kathmandu on Saturday.
Acharya also suggested
to uphold the pride of Nepal as one of the oldest countries in this part of the
world.
Rudra Kumar Nepal,
former ambassador, said that the MoFA has an expertise and professionals to
handle the foreign affairs to achieve the national goal and meet the national
interest.
"There is a need
for innovative approaches in diplomacy like the recently held Sagarmatha
Sambaad," he said.
Likewise, Foreign
Secretary, Amrit Bahadur Rai, said that leadership in the foreign service
is about being the first to rise in a crisis and the last to retreat from
responsibility.
Addressing the senior
officials, he said that top diplomats are not merely supervisors, they are
architects of unity, mentors of purpose, and builders of high-performing teams.
"In diplomacy,
learning flows not just through instruction, but through osmosis — your juniors
absorb as much from your tone as from your tasking, from how you act as much as
what you assign," he said.
According to Rai, the
Foreign Service Day is about the reflection,
celebration and recognition of contribution in the foreign service.
"We must equip
ourselves with strategic foresight, solution-oriented thinking, and
bridge-building skills. We must continue to uphold our independent foreign
policy, rooted in the UN Charter, non-alignment, Panchsheel, and our
constitutional values," Rai maintained.
He also said that
they must be bold in negotiation, principled in partnership, and visionary in
strategy.
On the occasion, the
MoFA welcomed the newly recruited officers of the Ministry with certificate of
acknowledgement.
The MoFA had
celebrated the first Foreign Affairs Service Day in 2022.
The celebration is
made to mark the Nepal Foreign Service (Formation and Classification) Rules,
1961. May 24 is marked every year as the Foreign Service Day in remembrance of
the day when the Foreign Service was legally codified in Nepal.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 25 May 2025.
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