Prez Paudel leaves for Qatar to attend 2nd World Summit for Social Development
KATHMANDU: President Ramchandra Paudel left for Doha, the capital of Qatar, today to participate in the Second World Summit for Social Development, scheduled to take place from November 4 to 6.
The President is leading a 12-member Nepali delegation to the summit at the invitation of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
President Paudel was seen off at Tribhuvan International Airport by Vice President Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav, Prime Minister Sushila Karki and Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal.
Also on hand to see off the President were special-class government officials, heads of security bodies and representatives of foreign diplomatic missions in Nepal.
A contingent of the Nepali Army presented a guard of honour to President Paudel on the occasion.
The President is scheduled to address the plenary meetings and the high-level roundtable of the summit on November 4.
The President is scheduled to hold meetings with the UN Secretary-General and the Emir of Qatar. On the sidelines of the summit, he will also meet some world leaders attending the event.
The summit is expected to secure a shared commitment to cooperation and assistance for social development and to hold intensive discussions on global development inequalities, demographic imbalances and the impacts of technology on society.
The First World Summit for Social Development was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1995. The current Second Summit is taking place after 30 years.
President Paudel is accompanied by his spouse Sabita Paudel, Kiran Kumar Pokhrel, media expert to the President, the secretary of the President's Office and other senior officials of the Government of Nepal.
The President and the delegation will return to Kathmandu on November 6.
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