Call to promote Nepali culture to establish, expand foreign relations

Experts have viewed that promoting culture should be the main basis in establishing and expanding relations with other countries and international missions.

Attending the interaction and a programe organized to offer congratulations and best wishes in honor of the newly appointed ambassador and the Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations by the Cultural Study and Research Council Nepal today, they stressed the need for establishing diplomacy along with cultural promotion.

On the occasion, senior culture expert and poet Tulasi Dibas viewed that ambassadors representing Nepal should increase informal relation not only limiting to formal relation. Ambassadors' role is important in creating awareness and promoting culture, he said.

He underscored the need for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide orientation to ambassadors to make Nepali language, culture, lifestyle and cloth known to the world.

Similarly, Dr Khagendra Luitel of the Central Department of Nepali, the Tribhuvan University, shared that ambassadors' have an important role in promoting Nepali language and culture in foreign countries while stating that culture could be an important instrument for the identity of Nepal.

Newly appointed ambassador of Nepal to Thailand Dhan Bahadur Oli said time has come to think over ways to publicise Nepal's good practices to the world. Nepali language and culture could connect Nepal with the world community, he added.

Asserting that Nepali language, culture, lifestyle and costumes are the identity of Nepal, Ambassador of Nepal to the United Arab Emirates Tej Bahadur Chhetri stressed the need for its handover to the new generation. Nepal's Ambassador to Kuwait Ghana Shyam Lamsal pointed out the need for Nepali families to compulsorily teach Nepali language to their children.

Likewise, Nepal's Representative to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Geneva, Ram Prasad Subedi, also Nepal's ambassador to Switzerland, stressed the need for promoting Nepali culture to increase tourism activities in Nepal.

Also, the Council's Chairperson senior folk singer Bam Bahadur Karki mentioned that the programme aimed to explore ways from various sectors to promote Nepali culture.

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