Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is scheduled to leave for Uganda on Thursday leading a Nepali delegation to the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement being held on January 19-20.

The prime minister will be accompanied by his daughter Ganga Dahal.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nepali delegation includes Minister for Foreign Affairs NP Saud, Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal and senior government officials.

The prime minister is scheduled to address the plenary session of the summit on the theme ‘Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence’ on Friday.

He will then attend the state banquet hosted by the President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in honour of the heads of delegation of NAM member states.

Prime Minister Dahal will have bilateral meetings with heads of state, heads of government and other high dignitaries attending the summit, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

The prime minister will return home on January 21.

The summit will be preceded by the ministerial meeting on January 17-18.

The foreign minister will leave Kathmandu on Tuesday leading a Nepali delegation to the ministerial meeting of the summit. The ministerial meeting will be preceded by the senior officials meeting on January 15-16.

The summit will consider the report of the preparatory ministerial meeting, review the progress achieved in the implementation of the outcomes of the 18th Summit held in 2019, and conclude with the adoption of the Kampala Declaration.

Nepal is a founding member of the non-aligned movement and has been actively participating in all NAM Summits since its inception.

After the 19th NAM Summit, the third south summit is being held on January 21-22. Foreign Secretary Lamsal will lead the Nepali delegation to the south summit.