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Swiss delegation visiting Nepal

Tuesday - 24th April 2007

A high-level Swiss delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Heidi Tagliavini, is arriving in Kathmandu on a six-day visit on Tuesday, reported the website nepalnews.com.

During the visit, the Swiss delegation is scheduled to hold a series of high-level meetings with Nepali political party leaders including Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) Prachanda, Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan and Information and Communication Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara.

These meetings mainly focus on the Swiss assistance for the upcoming constituent assembly election and the Swiss development projects in Nepal.

The five-member delegation is also scheduled to inspect the development projects run by the Swiss Agency for Development and Corporation (SDC) in Sindhuli District, some 80 km east of Kathmandu and also visit the CPN-M cantonment sites in the district.


Source Xinhua