KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 9

Experts have viewed that promoting culture should be the main basis for establishing and expanding relations with other countries and international missions.

Attending an interaction to offer congratulations and best wishes in honour of the newly appointed ambassador and the Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations by the Cultural Study and Research Council Nepal today, they stressed the need to establish diplomacy along with cultural promotion.

On the occasion, senior culture expert and poet Tulasi Dibas viewed that ambassadors representing Nepal should increase informal relations and not limit themselves to formal relations. Ambassadors' role is important in creating awareness and promoting culture, he said.

He underscored the need for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide orientation to ambassadors to make Nepali language, culture, lifestyle and clothes known to the world. Similarly, Khagendra Luitel of the Central Department of Nepali, Tribhuvan University, shared that ambassadors' have an important role in promoting Nepali language and culture in foreign countries while stating that culture could be an important instrument for the identity of Nepal.

Newly appointed ambassador of Nepal to Thailand Dhan Bahadur Oli said time had come to think of ways to publicise Nepal's good practices to the world. Nepali language and culture could connect Nepal with the world community, he added. Ambassador of Nepal to the United Arab Emirates Tej Bahadur Chhetri stressed the need for its handover to the new generation.

A version of this article appears in the print on September 10, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.