Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba will leave for Rome on Friday to attend the 44th session of the FAO Conference, which is scheduled for June 28 to July 4.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deuba will deliver an address at the main session and participate in other high-level events during the week-long conference.

She will lead a Nepali delegation that includes the Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the FAO Bharat Kumar Regmi, as well as officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.

After the FAO Conference, the foreign minister will travel to Milan, Hamburg, and Berlin to attend programmes organised by the Investment Board Nepal to promote investment.

Deuba is scheduled to return to Kathmandu on July 13.