UN Secretary General Guterres returns to New York

Wrapping up his four-day official visit to Nepal, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres returned to New York on Wednesday.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka bade farewell to him at the VVIP lounge of the Tribhuvan International Airport.

On the occasion, high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representatives of the United Nations Office in Nepal were present during the farewell ceremony.

A contingent of Nepal Army offered a guard of honor to Guterres in his farewell.

At the cordial invitation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the UN Secretary General arrived in Kathmandu on October 28.

The UN Chief had separately called on President Ram Chandra Paudel and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal'.

Likewise, he held separate meetings with Nepali Congress (NC) President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN-UML Chair and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Speaker Devraj Ghimire, national Assembly Chairperson Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, Deputy Prime Minister duo, Khadka and Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Prakash Saud.

During his stay in Nepal, he visited the Everest region and Annapurna Base Camp, Pokhara and Lumbini.

He also visited historically and archaeologically important Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur.

PM Dahal had hosted a dinner with a cultural program in honor of the Secretary General.

In the course of his visit, he also addressed the joint session of the Federal Parliament.

Guterres, who came to Nepal for the first time after assuming the post of the UN Secretary General, in 2017 had discussed the issues related to Nepal's home-grown peace process, climate change and poverty alleviation.