According to sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Bhattarai is scheduled to address the Rio+20 Conference on behalf of Nepal and the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Heads of the state and government from more than 130 countries are participating in the conference.[break]
He is scheduled to hold meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff and heads of the state and government from different countries on the sideline of the conference.
The conference is being organized as a 20-year follow-up to the historic 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in the same city. The conference has three broad objectives including securing renewed political commitment to sustainable development, assessing the progress and implementation gaps in meeting already agreed commitments and addressing new and emerging challenges.
It is said that there will be a separate meetings of LDCs and Mountainous countries on the sideline of the conference.
Sources said a declaration -Kathmandu Call for Action-adopted by a conferences of mountain countries held in Kathmandu in April will also be presented in the Rio+20 conference. Nepal, Peru and Switzerland are jointly chairing the group of mountainous countries.
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