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UNGA session: Nepal PM cancels New York visit

| | Sep 19, 2016, at 10:19 pm
Kathmandu, Sept 19 (IBNS): Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has cancelled his visit to New York.

According to media reports, he cancelled his visit to the UN headquarters in the city by citing domestic issues.

The Nepali leader was scheduled to travel to the US on Monday to participate in the  71st Session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

In a statement issued late on Sunday night, the Prime Minister’s Secretariat said Prime Minister Dahal decided not to leave Nepal at present taking into consideration the voices raised by the agitating parties and the general public to focus on the resolution of concerns raised by them, implementation of the Constitution and reconstruction in the wake of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, The Himalayan Times reported.

Dahal recently visited India.
 

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