News, Views From Nepal

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...

ि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 छ । यस वर्षको संयुक...

Yuba Nath Lamsal :--- Leadership has two main dimensions. One is vision and the other one is execution. Vision seeks what to achieve and execution is to do with how to achieve the goal set in the vision. In politics, ideology is the vision or goal, while governance is the art of translating the vision into action producing the desired results. First part is to do with decision-making and the second aspect deals with management. This is applied in politics, foreign policy, diplomacy and other sectors as well. Politics is generally taken as a domestic vocation and politicians are required to focus more on internal matters. However, this is not always true. Politics is diplomacy at home as it is interaction among different domestic stakeholders within the country. Foreign policy and diplomacy deal with the international stakeholders and actors. Politics and diplomacy, therefore, are similar or in other words, two sides of a coin. The fundamental objective of politics is to defend sov...

Yuba Nath Lamsal: ---- The 81st United Nations General Assembly commences next week (September 8), in which world leaders and diplomats rub shoulders at the UN headquarters. The UN annual gala event kicks off on the third Tuesday of September every year, where countries engage in multi-lateral diplomacy seeking to address some pressing issues facing the humanity. A high-level Nepalese delegation is participating in the 81st UN General Assembly, which has been a regular annual phenomenon since the 11th General Assembly in 1956. The term ‘United Nations’ was coined by former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 to denote a coalition of countries at war against Axis powers during World War II. As the war was raging, 26 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, China and the Soviet Union, met in Washington and signed the ‘Declaration of the United Nations’. The October 1943 Moscow meeting of US, UK and Russian foreign ministers agreed to create an international organi...

युब नाथ लम्साल :--- कुनै पनि देशको परराष्ट्रनीति र अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सम्बन्धका आधार मूलतः राष्ट्रिय हितबाट निर्देशित हुन्छन् । राष्ट्रिय हित सामान्यतया राज्यका स्थायी सरोकारका विषय हुन्छन र हुन् । राष्ट्रिय हित भन्नाले मूलतः राष्ट्रिय सार्वभौमिकता, भौगोलिक अखण्डता, राष्ट्रिय सुरक्षा र आर्थिक समृद्धि पर्छन् । परराष्ट्रनीतिको सञ्चालन यिनै आधारभूत विषयमा केन्द्रित हुन्छ । त्यसैले विदेशनीतिमा मूलतः निरन्तरता हुन्छ र सरकार वा शासनव्यवस्था परिवर्तन हुँदैमा परराष्ट्रनीतिको आधारभूत दिशा सामान्यतः परिवर्तन हुँदैन । विदेशनीति र कूटनीतिमा व्यक्तिविशेषले पनि कहिलेकाहीँ उल्लेखनीय फरक पार्न सक्छ । त्यसका लागि सम्बन्धित नेताको क्षमता, दक्षता, दृष्टिकोण र प्रतिबद्धतामा भर पर्छ । नेपालको परराष्ट्रनीतिको मूल उद्देश्य सधैँ राष्ट्रिय हितबाट निर्देशित हुँदै आएको छ; जसको प्राथमिक आधार राष्ट्रिय अस्तित्व र सुरक्षाको सुनिश्चितता हो । वर्तमान संविधानले नेपालको विदेशनीतिका उद्देश्य, मार्गदर्शक सिद्धान्त र प्राथमिकताहरू स्पष्ट रूपमा निर्दिष्ट गरेको छ । संविधानले राष्ट्रिय हितलाई समेत स्पष्ट रूपमा परिभाषित गरेक...