‘Amity with all and enmity with none’ remains the soul of our foreign policy, Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali told the diplomatic community in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

Our policy of engaging constructively with all of our friends and partners has been mutually beneficial, he said, we continue to work closely with our neighbours, major powers, development partners, and countries in our extended neighbourhood, labour-receiving countries, United Nations and multilateral financial institutions.

Since the political transition is over and there is a new era of political stability in Nepal, our priorities and modalities for engagement demand commensurate adjustments, he said.

The Constitution allocates the matters related to foreign relations under the competence of the federal government, the foreign minister said, it is in this context that we had to devise a code of conduct and advise our partners from the diplomatic community to follow the official channel of communications on the matters of development partnership.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs remains available to facilitate you in that process, he said. (PR)