Foreign Secretary stresses on balance between development and trade

Kathmandu / Mar 2: Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi has met with World Trade Organisation (WTO) director general Roberto Azevedo on Friday. During the meeting held in Geneva, Bairagi stressed on the need to achieve a proper balance between trade and development.

According to Nepal’s Geneva-based Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Bairagi remarked that all countries should gain from the world trading system and said that there should be a system of wide support for the (Least Developed Countries) LDCs as they have not been fully able to utilise special and differential provisions of the WTO regime.

Likewise, the Foreign Secretary also held a meeting with Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore on the sidelines of the 37th session of Human Rights Council and apprised her about achievements made Nepal in the area of human rights over the years, adding that Nepal has remained constructively engaged with the UN human rights machinery. RSS