Foreign Secretary of Nepal Bharat Raj Paudyal held a meeting with Jan Adams, Secretary of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia, in Canberra on Tuesday. During the meeting, they discussed various matters of bilateral relations and agreed to further expand and strengthen cooperation in different areas of mutual interests, read a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On the occasion, the memorandum of understanding was signed between the government of Nepal and the government of Australia on Cooperation on the Fields of Water Resources Management.

Dinesh Kumar Ghimire, Secretary at the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat of Nepal and Jan Adams, Secretary of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia, signed the MoU on behalf of their respective governments, the statement read.

A Nepali delegation led by Foreign Secretary Paudyal arrived in Canberra on August 28 to hold the second meeting of the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia which was scheduled to be held on August 30. Other delegation members from Nepal include Dinesh Kumar Ghimire, Secretary, Water and Energy Commission, Kailash Raj Pokharel, Ambassador of Nepal to Australia, Lok Bahadur Thapa, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sita Basnet, Under Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kul Bahadur Magar, Deputy Head of Mission of Embassy of Nepal.