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Yuba Nath Lamsal:--- Why Foreign Policy?:-- All countries in the world are inter-dependent and inter-connected. No country is fully self-reliant on all fields and fronts. Every country thus depends on other countries in a way or the other. This requires states to get engaged and cooperate with other countries. But the level of relations, engagement and cooperation differ with countries. Thus, states devise and adopt certain strategies, policies and approaches to deal with other countries, depending upon the scale and level of engagements. The strategy and policy applied in dealing with other countries is called foreign policy, while the tools used to conduct the foreign policy is diplomacy. The principal objective of foreign policy is to serve national interest and guide relations with other countries based on which foreign policy priorities and diplomatic tactics and tools are adopted. In the realm of foreign policy and international relations, diplomacy is an art that involves com...

Yuba Nath Lamsal:--- Foreign policy is a broader strategic perspective of a country to look at the world and accordingly deal with other countries in the quest of protecting national interest. The overall international situation, developments in the neighbourhood, country’s economy, history, military strength, values, domestic necessities and geopolitical positioning determine the foreign policy, its priorities and objectives of any country. It is a basic guideline based on which diplomacy acts in the field. According to Polish-born US professor Feliks Gross, ‘foreign policy is an ideology which has its own semantics, objectives, modus operandi and costs’. As the national interest is the paramount basis of adopting and conducting foreign policy, countries have diverse approaches and priorities in relations with other countries. In other words, foreign policy is a procedure and approach in projecting power for powerful countries, while survival and development are often the bases a...

युब नाथ लम्साल:--- सन् १९५५ (विसं २०१२) लाई नेपालको कूटनीतिक इतिहासमा दुई कारणले महत्वपूर्ण मोडका रूपमा लिइन्छ । एउटा लामो प्रतीक्षा र प्रयासपछि नेपालले औपचारिक रूपमा संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको सदस्यता प्राप्त ग‍र्‍यो भने अर्को नेपालले चीनसँग कूटनीतिक सम्बन्ध स्थापना गर्‍यो । कूटनीतिक सम्बन्ध स्थापना भएदेखि नै नेपाल–चीन सम्बन्ध विभिन्न तहमा विकसित हुँदै आएको छ । नेपाल र चीनबिच औपचारिक कूटनीतिक सम्बन्ध स्थापना भएको ७१ वर्ष मात्र भएको छ तर ऐतिहासिक दृष्टिले नेपाल–चीन सम्बन्धलाई प्रागैतिहासिक तथा सभ्यतापूर्व कालसम्मै जोडिन्छ । काठमाडौँ उपत्यका कुनै समय मानवबस्तीविहीन विशाल जलाशय थियो र तिब्बती पठारबाट आएका चिनियाँ सन्त मञ्जुश्रीले उपत्यकाको दक्षिण–पश्चिमी भागमा रहेको चोभारमा गल्छी बनाएर पानी बाहिर पठाएपछि यहाँ मानवबस्तीको सुरुवात भयो । कालान्तरमा यही बस्ती विस्तार हुँदै नेपाल राष्ट्रका रूपमा विकसित भएको भन्ने किंवदन्ती छ । यस अर्थमा नेपाल र चीनका जनताबिचको सम्पर्क र सहकार्यको इतिहास प्राचीनकालदेखि नै जोडिएको देखिन्छ । नेपाली सभ्यता र राष्ट्रनिर्माणको प्रारम्भिक चरणदेखि नै यी दुई एसियाली छ...

Yuba Nath Lamsal :---- The August 26 Himalayan flood, also called the Himalayan tsunami, has badly exposed Nepal’s vulnerability to natural calamities. Earthquake, floods, landslides, avalanches, glacial lakes outburst floods, drought and climate-induced menaces are some of the recurrent forms of disaster Nepal often faces. Such disasters cause enormous loss of lives and properties almost every year. Nepal is in the seismic zone and earthquakes often strike, which are natural phenomenon. The nature and geological structure of the Himalayas, which is world’s youngest mountain range formed by the tectonic collision of Eurasian and Indian plates almost 50 million years ago. Natural calamities are beyond human control. However, unsustainable human activities are responsible for some cases of disasters recurrent flash floods, landslides, avalanches and glacial lakes outburst floods. The Himalayas is the source of water for billions of people in Asia and their livelihood is directly link...

युब नाथ लम्साल:--- िश्वभरका नेता तथा कूटनीतिज्ञ संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिकाको न्युयोर्कस्थित संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको मुख्यालयमा भेला हुँदै छन् । उनीहरूले विश्वव्यापी सरोकारका विषय तथा मानव समुदायले सामना गरिरहेका विविध समस्या र चुनौतीमाथि बहस, छलफल र विचार–विमर्श गर्ने छन् । राष्ट्रसङ्घको महासभाको नियमित अधिवेशन प्रत्येक वर्ष सेप्टेम्बर महिनाको तेस्रो मङ्गलबारदेखि सुरु हुन्छ । यस वर्ष ८१ औँ महासभामा सदाझैँ नेपालको उच्चस्तरीय प्रतिनिधिमण्डलले पनि सहभागिता जनाउँदै छ । सन् १९५६ मा सम्पन्न ११ औँ महासभादेखि नेपालले संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको महासभामा नियमित रूपमा सहभागिता जनाउँदै आएको छ । दोस्रो विश्वयुद्धको विनाशपछि सन् १९४५ मा संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको स्थापना भएको हो । राष्ट्रसङ्घले आठ दशक पूरा गरी परिपक्वता हासिल गरेको छ । राष्ट्रसङ्घ र नेपाल सन् १९५५ मा संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको सदस्य बनेदेखि नै नेपालले यस विश्व संस्थामा सक्रिय भूमिका निर्वाह गर्दै आएको छ । नेपाल संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको दृढ समर्थक राष्ट्र हो र संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको बडापत्रमा निहित सिद्धान्त तथा मूल्य–मान्यताप्रति प्रतिबद्ध रहँदै आएको...