SAI has played an important part in promoting and organizing research in Nepal in this period and will continue the academic cooperation in future as well.
Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun was invited as the chief guest for the event. Ministers and secretaries from various ministries of the Government of Nepal, leaders of political parties, heads of Kathmandu-based diplomatic missions, civil society members, Human Rights advocates, businessperson, media person and people from various walks of life were invited in the program, read a statement issued by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kathmandu. In his welcome speech, ambassador Prinz said, “Our bilateral relations with Nepal this year were marked by the German Government’s decision to continue the development cooperation with Nepal recognizing the good progress Nepal has made in the last years in political and socio-economic development sector” In 1989, the so called “Berlin wall” came down – the wall which had been dividing the Eastern and Western part of Germany since 1963. The “Berliner Mauer” was designed to physically prevent disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. The Peaceful Revolution of 1989 led to the opening of the border on November 9, 1989, which for the first time after 28 years allowed Germans to freely move in the whole of the country. It led to a new form of encounters between the East and the West, and it re-united the whole of Europe.
