Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will virtually address the 5th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit to be held on March 30.

The Nepali delegation led by the Prime Minister will include Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Khadka, Personal Secretary to the Prime Minister Bhan Bahadur Deuba, Chief Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi, Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal and senior officials from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, read a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Khadka will participate in the 18th BIMSTEC ministerial meeting in-person to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 29. On the sidelines, he will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from BIMSTEC member states. 

He will leave for Colombo March 28 and will return to Kathmandu on March 31, the Ministry said.

Similarly, the Nepali delegation led Ghanshyam Bhandari, Joint Secretary and Head of Regional Organization Division at the Ministry, will participate in the 22nd BIMSTEC senior officials' meeting physically on March 28.

The Fifth BIMSTEC Summit and its preceding meetings are being held in and from Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 28 – 30 in a hybrid mode, the statement read.

The theme of this year's Summit is ‘BIMSTEC – Towards a Resilient Region, Prosperous Economies, Healthy Peoples’.