Speaker Mahara reaches Lhasa

Speaker of the House of Representatives Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Yu Hong among other government officials attend the opening ceremony of Fourth China-Tibet International Tourism and Culture Expo 2018 in Lhasa, China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, on Friday, September 7, 2018. Photo: RSS

Kathmandu, September 7 

Speaker of the House of Representatives Krishna Bahadur Mahara reached Lhasa today on a six-day visit to China’s Tibet Autonomous Region at the invitation of the Chairman of TAR Government Qi Zhala.

Mahara has been invited as a guest for the opening ceremony of Fourth China-Tibet International Tourism and Culture Expo 2018 to be held on September 7 in Lhasa and as the keynote speaker in the Trans-Himalayan Belt and Road International Cooperation Forum to be held in Lulang Town of Lizhi City on September 10.

Upon his arrival at Lhasa Gonggar International Airport, Mahara was welcomed by Ju Jianhua, Vice-Chairman of the People’s Congress of TAR, and Gobinda Bahadur Karkee, consul general of Nepal in Lhasa, according to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the evening, Mahara had a meeting with Wu Yingjie, secretary general of the Communist Party of China Party Committee of TAR.

After the meeting, Speaker Mahara attended the welcome banquet hosted by Wu Yingjie.

After the banquet, Speaker delivered a speech in the opening ceremony of the Fourth China-Tibet International Tourism and Culture Expo 2018. While wishing for the success of the event, he commended TAR for her spectacular social and economic development.

On September 9, Mahara, along with the high-level dignitaries of TAR, is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for the reconstruction of Consulate General of Nepal buildings in Lhasa and launch the reconstruction project of friendship bridges of Tatopani-Zhangmu (Khasa) and Rasuwagadhi-Jilung.

The reconstruction project of the two friendship bridges is aided by the central Government of China and the reconstruction of the Consulate General buildings is aided by the TAR government.

Mahara is accompanied by five members of the Federal Parliament, secretary of the Secretariat of Federal Parliament, his own secretaries and a journalist.  Mahara is scheduled to return to home on September 12.

 

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