National Day Of Nepal: Embassy Of Nepal Holds Reception In Yangon

The Embassy of Nepal in Myanmar on Sunday evening held a reception to commemorate the Constitution Day and National Day of Nepal.

Chargé d' Affaires of the Embassy Mr. Khuman Singh Tamang and Mrs. Dil Maya Waiba and many other Nepalese and Myanmar officials as well as invited guests attended the reception at Pan Pacific Hotel in Yangon. The National Day and Constitution Day of Nepal is to mark when the second Constitution Assembly of Nepal unanimously passed the present Constitution of Nepal (2015).

This Constitution is claimed to be the most inclusive and progressive drafted by people’s representatives through Constitution Assembly in the annals of a world constitution. Nepal is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, bordering Tibet of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal was admitted to the United Nations in 1955, and friendship treaties were signed with India in 1950 and China in 1960. Nepal hosts the permanent secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), of which it is a founding member. Nepal is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Bay of Bengal Initiative.