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PM sends official invite to UN Secretary General to visit Nepal

17 March 2012 04:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has sent an official invitation to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit Nepal on the last week of April, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

"The government has extended an invitation to Secretary General Ban to attend an international conference on Lumbini development to be held in Lumbini on April 29. Ban’s visit has been fixed for the last week of April," spokesperson of the Lumbini Development Steering Committee and Nepali Congress leader Minendra Rijal was quoted by Saturday’s The Kathmandu Post daily as saying.

The invitation, a personal note in nature, signed by Bhattarai has been forwarded to Nepal’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Gyan Chandra Acharya.

This would be Ban’s second trip to the country in capacity of the UN Secretary General. He was in Nepal in 2009.