KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 16

In less than three-and-a-halfmonths after returning from his five day official visit to neighbouring China, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha has yet again left for the northern neighbour to participate in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.

DPM Shrestha will lead a team of seven delegates to participate in the two-day function to be held in Beijing tomorrow and on Wednesday.

DPM Shrestha is scheduled to deliver a key note speech during the programme 'High-level Forum on Green Development'.

A press release issued by theMoHA stated that DPM Shrestha would also hold meetings with Wang Xiangxi, China's Public Security and Emergency Minister and member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China and state counsellor.

He will also attend a dinner hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow evening on the first day of the conference.

DPM Shrestha had received formal invitation from Wang Xiangxi as well as Ecology and Environment Minister Huang Runqiu through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

DPM Shrestha is scheduled to meet Wand to discuss the bilateral support and relationship of two countries.

On July 2, upon returning from China, DPM Shrestha had said that Nepal and China would finalise the implementation modality of the BRI. Nepal and China signed the BRI framework in 2017 although both sides are still struggling to sign the implementation plan.

DPM Shrestha has been stressing in public functions that implementing BRI would immensely help Nepal in various development sectors.

Around three dozen heads of the state and nation, including United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, are scheduled to attend the programme.

The forum will discuss ways to develop policies and programmes to develop green energy and replace fossil fuels in the energy sector by the next 10 years.

A version of this article appears in the print on October 17, 2023, of The Himalayan Times