Nepal to participate in the 19th NAM summit to be held in Uganda

Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal has left for Uganda, leading a Nepali delegation to attend the 19th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

The NAM summit is being held in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, on January 19-20. The PM Dahal-led delegation comprises his daughter Ganga Dahal, Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud, Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal, and senior officials of the Nepal government.

PM Dahal will address the plenary session of the summit that is being held under the theme, ‘deepening global cooperation for shared global affluence’ on 19th January 2024. In the course of the summit, the PM will be holding bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the attending countries.

Foreign Minister NP Saud is already in Uganda for the ministerial meeting in the run-up to the main event of the NAM summit.

Non-alignment is one of the fundamental foreign principles of Nepal. India is a founding member of NAM which was established in 1961.