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Economic Development To Graduate Nepal To A developing Country
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 21, 2013: Minister for Foreign Affairs Madhav Prasad Ghimire has said that the economic development has been given the first priority to graduate the country to a developing country from the least developed status within the next 10 years, according to the RSS news on ‘gorkhapatraonline.com’.
At a workshop titled 'Bilateral Relations and Economic Cooperation' jointly held by the Delegation of the European Union to Nepal and the Association of Former Career Ambassadors of Nepal (AFCAN) in Kathmandu yesterday, Minister Ghimire said that the support of the international community for upgrading Nepal to a developing country was crucial.
Appreciating the European Union (EU) for working through the UN agencies and civil society on implementing development activities such as poverty reduction, human rights, preservation of culture of indigenous communities, environmental conservation and sustainable development, basic and primary education, urban development, food security, conflict mitigation and peace building and so on, Vice-Chairman of National Planning Commission (NPC) Rabindra Kumar Shakya hoped that the EU would continue the support for these activities in the future.
Shakya said that recently the NPC released the Thirteenth Periodic Plan with the target to graduate Nepal to a developing country within 2022 and to reduce the poverty from the current 23 per cent to 18 per cent at the end of the Thirteenth Plan.
Ambassador Alexander Spachis Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Nepal has said that the EU has been supporting the Nepal's peace process, the education sector, and the economic-development capacity building; the EU has been providing Nepal with the most favorable trade terms, and supports developing the trade capacity of Nepal.
Spachis said, "EU is a close friend of Nepal but without immediate and minute interests in Nepal. Therefore, we follow Nepal's political development closely, but do not set preferences in the internal politics of Nepal."
President of AFCAN Kedar Bhakta Mathema said that the diplomatic relations established between Nepal and the EU have completed 40 years and stressed that Nepal should be serious to take benefit from the EU as far as possible.
