Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal attended the Second BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers’ Retreat being held in New Delhi on Thursday.

On the occasion, Lamsal reaffirmed Nepal’s unwavering commitment to carrying forward the BIMSTEC process and stressed enhanced collaborative efforts among member states to realise shared objectives of sustained peace, stability, and prosperity in the Bay of Bengal region.

“She further emphasised that Nepal will continue pursuing a ‘whole of the region’ approach to harness resources for common benefits, strengthen institution-building processes, and transform BIMSTEC into an effective, results-oriented regional forum,” the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi said.

The foreign secretary also highlighted the importance of leveraging synergies of South Asia and South-East Asia to ensure tangible benefits to the people of the region and addressing pressing challenges including climate change, health-related pandemics, natural disasters and transnational organised crimes, reads the statement from the embassy.

Lamsal also called on Indian Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar and Hasan Mahmud, foreign minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, separately.

The discussions focused on various aspects of cordial and cooperative bilateral relations, including regional cooperation within the BIMSTEC forum.