Kathmandu, March 12 

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari reached New York yesterday morning, leading a Nepali delegation to a High-Level event on ‘Women in Power’.

The event is being hosted by United Nations General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces on the occasion of the 63rd Session of the Commission on Status of Women.

In the evening, Bhandari attended a high-level welcome dinner hosted by Garces together with Estonia President Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic , President of Trinidad and Tobago Paula-Mae Weekes, and other women leaders who are in New York to attend the event, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bhandari was welcomed at the John F Kennedy International Airport by Arjun Kumar Karki, Ambassador of Nepal to the United States; Amrit Bahadur Rai, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations; and other officials of the Permanent Mission and the Consulate General of Nepal in New York.

Bhandari will today participate in the ‘High-Level Roundtable on How Women Leaders Change the World’, which is one of the three roundtables organised as part of the event. She will focus on the key question, ‘how women’s leadership is essential to address today’s global challenges’. She will also meet the Secretary-General of the United Nations; President of the General Assembly; and will hold bilateral meetings with presidents of Estonia and Croatia, among others, according to the press release.

Similarly, Minister of Women, Children and Senior Citizens Tham Maya Thapa arrived in New York yesterday to participate in the CSW-63.

Thapa attended the Opening of the session. She also delivered a statement at the High-level Ministerial Dialogue.