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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that Nepali citizens outside the country for various reasons will be provided the opportunity to vote in general elections.

Currently in the United States to participate in the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, Prime Minister Dahal said that Nepali citizens will not be deprived of the right to vote.

In a meeting with Nepali media persons in New York on Sunday, he said that the Election Commission has been instructed to make voting arrangements for Nepali citizens abroad.

On a different note, Prime Minister Dahal said that the government is ready to take required measures for corruption control and maintaining good governance.

He said that some groups were active to defame the government by overshadowing the good and positive deeds carried out by it so far.

Foreign Minister NP Saud, who is in New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly, held a meeting with UN Under-Secretary-General for Politics and Peacekeeping Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo.

During the meeting held on Sunday, they discussed matters related to world peace and security. Various other initiatives to be taken for the establishment of peace were also discussed, according to the Permanent Mission of Nepali to the United Nations.

Foreign Secretary Bharatraj Paudyal and Head of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Lok Bahadur Thapa among others were present in the meeting.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is currently in New York to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly, held a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in the UN Headquarters earlier today.

During the meeting, matters related to different issues including Nepal's peace process, peacekeeping, climate change, Sustainable Development Goals, Least Developed Countries and development financing were discussed.

"We agreed to further enhance Nepal-UN engagements and partnership", tweets the Prime Minister, while expressing delight to have met the UN Secretary General at the sidelines of the 78th session of the UNGA.

Nepali Congress (NC) leader Dr Shashanka Koirala has ruled out the possibility of government change at present.

Talking to mediapersons in Chitwan on Sunday, the NC leader said though general misunderstanding among the ruling partners, there was no possibility for the government change at the moment.

"As far as I am concerned, the government led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal could last for five years," he said, adding that a government is necessary to take the nation towards the path of development.  "There is no tug-of-war in the government."

The leader took time to say Dahal is not an ordinary personality, adding that he saw no ground that the CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) would collaborate in the days to come.

He also said that in the past he wished the NC to stay in the opposition, underlining the need for further unity within the party to keep the party legacy intact. 

He advised the party leadership to provide an opportunity to the youth generation to own up the party leadership.