United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is arriving in Kathmandu on a four-day visit to Nepal tonight (1 am on Sunday) at the invitation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'.
Prime Minister Prachanda had invited Secretary General Guterres to visit Nepal while participating in the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last September.
The government has given high priority to the visit of Secretary General Guterres. UN Secretary General Guterres is also the former Prime Minister of Portugal. This is his second term as the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Guterres will land at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) at 1 am on Sunday. He will be received at the airport by Foreign Minister NP Saud.
Then Secretary-General Guterres will go to the hotel to stay.
The UN Secretary General will be arriving on an official visit to Nepal first time since he assumed the office in January 2017.
His entourage will include UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN resident coordinator in Nepal, Hanaa Singer-Hamdy, and other officials from the UN Headquarters in New York and a team from the UN Nepal.
Programs during Guterres' Nepal visit?
Guterres will hold separate meetings with Prime Minister Dahal and President Ramchandra Paudel on Sunday afternoon. He is also scheduled to hold a group meeting with former Prime Ministers of Nepal.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General Guterres will visit Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur on Sunday itself and attend a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Prachanda in the evening.
On Monday (October 30), Secretary General Guterres will visit Syangboche, Solukhumbu to take stock of the impact of climate change. After returning to Kathmandu from Solukhumbu, Guterres will participate in the program at the UN House in Lalitpur.
On Monday evening, he is scheduled to go to Pokhara and stay for the night. On Tuesday morning (October 31), he will go to see the Annapurna circuit from Pokhara. After returning from the Annapurna Circuit, he will attend a press meet at the old airport in Pokhara. Later in the afternoon, he will go to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha.
He is scheduled to return to Kathmandu from Lumbini on Tuesday itself and address both houses of the Federal Parliament at 4 pm.
Secretary General Guterres will return to the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.
