KATHMANDU, MARCH 21

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is scheduled to attend the Fifth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation Summit virtually on March 30.

Releasing the decisions of the Council of Ministers today, government Spokesperson and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki said Minister of Foreign Affairs Narayan Khadka would attend the minister-level meeting while foreign affairs secretary would attend the foreign affairs secretary-level meeting of BIMSTEC.

The Cabinet meeting also decided to provide approval to sign the BIMSTECT Charter and other documents from Nepal in the Fifth BIMSTEC Summit.

Likewise, the meeting appointed Prem Raj Bhandari as the general manger of Nepal Transit and Warehousing Company Limited and Gautam Dangol as the member of the Electricity Regulations Commission.

According to Minister Karki, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has been given approval to sign a memorandum of understating on 'High Lays Export from Nepal to China'.

A version of this article appears in the print on March 22, 2022, of The Himalayan Times