Kathmandu. President Ramchandra Poudel, who has reached Geneva, Switzerland to participate in the 112th International Labor Conference, is on an official visit to Germany from today. President Paudel will leave Geneva today for Berlin, Germany. President Paudel is going to pay an official visit to Germany at the invitation of the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Amrit Bahadur Rai, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that he will have a formal meeting with the German President on June 3. Diplomatic relations between Nepal and Germany were established on April 4, 1958. Since then, the relationship between the two countries has been growing based on friendship, mutual understanding and cooperation. Both countries have established residential embassies in each other’s capital.
According to the Ministry, Nepal established its embassy in Berlin on 5th July 1965. In 1963, Germany established its embassy in Kathmandu. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 2018, various programs were organized in Germany and Nepal.
The exchange of visits at various levels has contributed to strengthening the close and cordial relations between the two countries. The then President of Germany, Heinrich Lübkel, visited Nepal in 1967 and President Roman Herzog in 1996. The then King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya visited Germany in October 1986. Similarly, then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala visited Germany in February 1995 and September 2000 and then Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari visited Germany in April 1995.
Likewise, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal visited Germany in February 1995 and the then Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav visited Germany in March 2009. Similarly, the then Commerce and Supply Minister Lekhraj Bhatt visited Germany on February 28, 2012 in connection with the Nepal Investment Year 2012.
President Paudel is accompanied by his wife Savita Paudel. Other members of the delegation include President’s Foreign Affairs Expert Dr. Suresh Chandra Chalise, Secretaries of the Office of the President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nepalese ambassadors to Switzerland and Germany and senior officials of the Office of the President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. President Paudel is scheduled to return home on June 5 after completing his visit.
President Ramchandra Paudel was honored with an ambassadorship to Switzerland
President Ramchandra Poudel has participated in the reception organized in his honor by the Nepalese Embassy in Switzerland. On that occasion, Ambassador Subedi informed President Paudel about various aspects of Swiss-Nepal relations, development and cooperation.
On this occasion, President Paudel was welcomed by the Nepali Ambassador to Switzerland, Ram Prasad Subedi and the Nepali people in Switzerland, according to the personal secretariat of the President. At the ceremony, Ambassador Subedi said that the meeting with the President of Nepal for the first time after 25 years by the President of Switzerland strengthened the relationship between the two countries and mentioned that his speech at the ILO program established the international identity of Nepal.
President Paudel addressed the opening session of the Global Alliance for Social Justice organized at the high-level session of the 112th International Labor Conference of the International Labor Organization in Geneva on Thursday as the keynote speaker.