Tepid diplomacy

Nepal seems to be staring into oblivion when it should be lobbying vigorously at the UNGA.

The symbolic handover of the gavel by Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), to incoming President Abdulla Shahid marked the passage on to the 76th. The only constant topic that occupies our consciousness seems to reflect the struggles heaped on by the pandemic. And the challenges remain more or less the same for the new session that started on September 14: Obliterated economies, widening gap between the rich and the poor, millions plunged into extreme poverty, prioritisation of the provision of vaccines to poorer member states amid a Covid surge, and a post-American scenario in Afghanistan.