Nepal Hosts High-Level Regional Dialogue on BhoteKoshi-Trishuli Disaster in Bangkok

Kathmandu. Nepal has organized a high-level regional dialogue on the BhoteKoshi-Trishuli disaster in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. In the high-level dialogue attended by ministers from Asia-Pacific countries, Nepal shared its experiences of climate crisis and sequential disasters and discussed the crisis in the Himalayan region due to global temperature rise and climate change.

On the occasion of the fifth ministerial conference of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Nepal organized a dialogue titled 'From Sagarmatha to the Sea: Lessons Learned from Nepal's BhoteKoshi-Trishuli Disaster in Preventing Sequential Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region' today. The dialogue was jointly organized by Nepal and UNESCAP at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, with the participation of ministers, diplomats, scientists, and disaster management experts from various countries in the Asia-Pacific region.