NEW YORK: Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said the United Nations General Assembly's 73rd Session would be utilised to present Nepal's hard-earned achievements before the global community.

He expressed hope that the UNGA session would be useful to garner additional international support in Nepal's efforts for materialising people's prosperity and happiness.

Minister Gyawali said this in response to the queries put forth by Nepal Television and Rastriya Samachar Samiti in New York. Minister Gyawali is part of the Nepal delegation headed by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to the UNGA. He said that Nepal promulgated a new Constitution to institutionalise federal democratic republic status achieved after an assiduous struggle and also successfully held three tiers of elections to implement the main law of the land.

Nepal received goodwill from the entire international community including the UN in its bid for epochal changes and the government is trying to connect these changes to the economic lives of Nepali people, he noted.

To a query on the UN, Minister Gyawali said new approaches and thoughts have been put forth regarding the global organisation's role and that the slogan of the 73rd session was to leverage collective efforts for building societies with peace, equity and sustainable development to connect them with all the people.

He also informed that Nepal has been raising its voice on the issue that UN should be transformed to address the needs of the time.

Minister Gyawali admitted that actions were not being emphatically put in place in a way to achieve the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). He said, "Health and education sectors see nominal spending compared to the public money spent in wars."

The Minister also expressed his confidence that meetings and consultations to be held with heads of governments of different countries on the sidelines of UNGA session would be useful in expanding Nepal's diplomatic relations.

He underlined the need for coordinated efforts to address the problems facing human society. Several questions have been raised on multilateralism, he said, adding that obstructions are becoming visible on transportation of goods and services.

Some countries are opting to impose their protection policy to revert globalisation, he claimed. Minister Gyawali also presented some examples substantiating his point that efforts are being exerted to weaken multilateral mechanisms such as Climate Change Paris Pact, Human Rights Council and World Trade Organisation.

Questions are being raised on the role of the UN and contributions pledged by developed countries to the developing are being cut off, he added.

Nepal wishes to raise these issues to make UN's role more effective.