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most history as ancient as time
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itself the roots of our civilization is
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stretched back over five
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milum while our past sh in spiritual and
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cultural
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treasure the modern history of Nepal
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begins in the year
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1768 when our ancestors
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under the leadership of the de
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kingar unified a series of small
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fragmented
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principalities into a single
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M this was a Monumental moment making
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the foundation
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of it is a coincidence of
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history that this
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unification occurred around the same
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time the United States of America
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adapted its Declaration of
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Independence the two struggles of
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nationhood were taking place at the same
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time in
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history and dels apart
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geographically
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for the road to mod modernity and democ
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was not a straight
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path for 104 years under the Rari the
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people of Nepal endured the tyranny of
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an authoritarian regim that suppressed
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their freedoms
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and is their
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poten the first down of
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democracy the year
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1951 marked a turning point in Neal's
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history after years of his strugle the
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raki
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was the town of democracy had arrived in
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NE at the Youth of those early years was
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sate the king should n the demra in
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but imposing a parly system of
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governance known as
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pchat system which was part this pchat
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system this system which lasted from
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1960 to
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1990 prohibited political parties from
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politics despite this setbacks the clam
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of democracy was
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never fully distinguished in
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Number the people's moments and the
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Triumph of democracy the plan of
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democracy flickered once more in
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1990
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igned by a massive popular moment known
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as the J andolan or people's movement
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which compelled the autocratic monarchy
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to a to demand for a
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democratic Constitution
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the constitution of
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1990 established Nepal as a
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constitutional monarchy with a
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multiparty democratic system and infrin
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fundamental rights such as freedom of
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speech assembly and
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Association but unfortunately before
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democracy had taken root the country
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clung into
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conflict a decade long arm violence
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launched by
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m resulted in the tragic loss of over
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177,000
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lives King sees the Power once again on
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the Prest of insecurity and put the
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Undeclared B on the political
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parties in 2006 again a wave of
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democracy swept over the shore of Nepal
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Politics as a mass of not as at another
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Jolan or people's moment for the
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absolute monarchy to relinquish its
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power and it also led the and it also
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led to the signing of a comprehensive p
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in November 2006 ending the M conflict
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and bringing back the country to peace
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and
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democracy in 2008 for the first time in
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our his a consent assembly was
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elected the the first very meeting of
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the constituent
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assembly took a historic decision to
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abolish the monarchy ending the
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240e r of the Saha Dynasty and
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transforming
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Nepal from a autocratic Kingdom into a
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Democratic
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Republic this momentous achievement
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proved the fact that people are mightier
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than armed violence or autocratic power
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based on traditional or heriditary
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and people are Ultimate Force to drive
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the history and save their own history
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the prolongation of the Constitution and
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the road ahead the constitution of
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2015 written by the elected constituent
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assembly represents the culmination of
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Nepali peoples seven decades or
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more uh of political struggle and
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sacrifices it has provided a stable
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Legal Foundation allowing us to focus on
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the next phase of our national Journey
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the pursuit of economic
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Prosperity ladies and
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gentlemen we see democracy as a
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political and social system in which
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every person feels
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dignified every person sees boundless Ms
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and every person feels safe and secure
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my lifelong struggle to Freedom has Saed
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a vision of democracy which I help
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comprehensive
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democracy when when I see comprehensive
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democracy I in Vision to cultivate an
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environment and guarantee equal that
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guarantees equal rights equal access to
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Opportunities social justice and
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security as well as
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dignity for
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all it aims to elevate women conserns
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and advanc civilization to a higher
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real Nepal's economic
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transformation now let me touch upon our
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journey of Economic
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Development as early as the mid 17th
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century Nepal thrived as a
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vibrant interport between India and
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China trade between these two great
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Nations was rooted through catf the
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capital of Nepal and
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Sh that Nepal enjoyed the lucrative
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privilege of M minting silver coins for
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Tibet of Highly profitable
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Enterprise however after the establish
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of modern Nepal Nepal in
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1768 the nation was imro to Contin
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little to focus on economic
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development for much of the 20th century
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Nepal's economy was largely F feudal
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and agrarian with WID spread poty
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however over the past few decades we
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have made Sub in improving the socio
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economic conditions of our
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people as we look to the Future our
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national experation REM say guiding
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Mantra prosperous Nepal
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Nepali this Vision aims to create a
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society where poverty is eradicated
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all are benefited from development and
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every individual lives with dignity
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and Madam brost Nepal is not resigned
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for economic
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backwardness on the
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contrary I World a profound conviction
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in Nepal's potential for enduring
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Prosperity whichs we we can achieve
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within a relatively short span of
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time we are vibrant vibrant democracy
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with a his of hardworking young
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population Nal between India and China
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both of whom have become economic
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powerhouses Nepal is uniquely positioned
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to make its economy dynamic damic by
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Dynamic for Accelerated economic
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growth I'm now leading the government
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formed by two major political parties in
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Parliament which have
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played decisive roles in the journey
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towards democracy and nation
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building our two parties are committed
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to providing exemplary
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governance with
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impeccable standard of integrity and
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transparence nothing is more Paramount
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to us than to bring prosperity and
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happiness in the lives of our fellow
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Neal while being fully aware of a
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formidable path ahead I am resolu in my
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determination to
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thank
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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you thank you prime minister for sharing
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your thoughts since you have been part
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of the history the modern history of
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Nepal so we hear it right from an actor
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uh Nepal as you may or may not know has
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been dear to my heart because I was
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instrumental and honored by being a
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drafter of the interim Constitution
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which was inter ter by definition to
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bring peace to the
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path uh and so I'm very glad to welcome
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you again to
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Colombia I'm noted for asking a lot of
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questions but I'm going to restrain
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because students want to ask questions
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but I will take the liberty of being the
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moderator asking three questions and
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they're going to be pragmatic questions
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at least two of them and democracy has
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to be sought
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has to be lived but in order to live it
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you also have to develop as you say give
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opportunity to the Next Generation as
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well as the present however you have a
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challenge your landlocked which is you
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have Mount Everest but you're still
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landlined the result of this also has
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been that per year according to the
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statistics 1 million people leave Nepal
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every year and
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100,000 students around the world
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including here at Colombia we enjoy them
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we appreciate them but your country
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needs them so the challenge is your
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education and development so what steps
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will you be taking in the near future to
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keep make it a home for the million who
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are leaving as well as the 100,000 that
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have left to get education
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elsewhere uh thank you
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Professor uh I don't about the history
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of Nepal the political history and the
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history of Economic Development
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asra and on the question of Economic
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Development when we are talking
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about it is related to the Education
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Health job opportunities and the
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economic other uh conditions of the
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country and without improving
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appropriate and capable man resource we
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cannot develop the country particular it
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is not good that our young population is
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uh flying away from the country and uh
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they are being migrated for education
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and for job
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opportunities of course there are not
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that much appropriate job opportunity in
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Neal so uh most of the youth who are
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going outside they are going for job so
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they will be B people talk about the
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rush in the airport youths are going
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outside outside outside but they don't
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take uh any account of the people who
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are coming back too equal people are
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going outside and coming back too but
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the number of people who are going
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outside is larger than who are returning
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back of course who are going outside for
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job checking jobs they are coming back
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but uh
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those who are going for other purposes
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for education for
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other good better job opport
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opportunities they are
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not
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uh coming back so soon maybe later on
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they will be
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back and uh we are not talking as your
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professor you asked
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that why do we shall do we
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will not talk about job opportunities
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because job opportunities do not come
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without any Source but we have to
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emphasize uh on
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the
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entrepreneurship so we are trying to
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develop entrepreneurship and a startup
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projects and trying to attract the youth
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and they can put their uh certificate
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and get loan and
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as well as the women they can without
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any certificate or anything they can ask
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for loan and they can get loan for small
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businesses in this way we are trying to
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create new
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office startups
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and uh entrepreneurship new small
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enterpreneurship and at the same time
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very bitter fact is that our population
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Out Among our population
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more than 60% of our population is still
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engaged in agricultural system which is
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very B and traditional one so we have to
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modernize agriculture we have to
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commercialize Agriculture and mechanize
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so we can uh increase the income through
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uh
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agriculture uh jobs too so in this way
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and providing good education I think
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that is not that much poor situation in
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the country about the
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education but uh there is another type
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of Attraction of outside because
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facilities comparatively are less inside
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country inside
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the then outside sure there is one
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attraction also but we are trying
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to hold them inside country
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without them without
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yous we cannot transform the country
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into a situation of LGC to developing
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country and tomorrow and then developed
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one another question which I have you've
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been blessed because you have hydro you
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have water however if you look into the
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future like the rest of the world
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climate change is H us and your gles are
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melting which which means that your
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major resource or Hydro Clean may not be
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with you how are you anticipating
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meeting this
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challenge that lure thank you profess
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you is very important and very timely
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question it is very relevant in the
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present
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time uh most of the
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people talk about the uh rising of sea
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level and
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global warming
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Etc first we have to understand an
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entire Globe must understand
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that the mountains and particularly the
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mountains in
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NE they are the location the situation
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of our Mountains and the rule of the of
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our mountains to
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maintain
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uh climate balance
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an
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ecosystem
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is
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especially uh important because those
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are between the line of cancer and line
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of C that's is heart
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area the sun goes up to cancer line of
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cancer and up to C this is H area and
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being situated at the hot area and those
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mountains are holding sows High because
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of the
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altitude they in the hard place but
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there is ice and that is the largest
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cooling system and charging system of
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the world recharge system of the water
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and cooling the Earth and cooling the
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air of that and mountains are not only
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important for the world but for entire
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world for the entire gr they are
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important so I would like to draw
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attention of the world that uh if we
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talk about the
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range of sea levels and the danger of
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sinking of small island
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countryes
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uh we have to go to the source of the
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problem we cannot treat at in but we
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have to go the source and that source is
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the mountain if the
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mountain hold
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enough ice and melt slowly then they can
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through the rivers rivers rear system
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they
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canly but if the see again there is one
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ecosystem between the sea and Mountain
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if the seas are polluted and the
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polluted Cloud goes to the mountain and
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it collides with the mountain and that
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contributes to melt the
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ice that is another
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and fire in the forest that is another
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problem and in our region
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particularly uh some months before there
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was report uh worldwide there was uh
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known
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that the most polluted city was C at one
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time it was for about one week or two
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weeks about
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because after the harvesting after
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harvesting the wheat the hair of weight
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was worlded and the cloud and the
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smoke and the
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dust while is spread that created very
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dangerous pollution in the
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A and that is
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salty and that is acidic and that goes
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to polite with the mountains and the ice
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melts that's the problem
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so uh until now in my opinion we are
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contributing 64 66 46 46% of our land
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for
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Forest as well as our mountains are
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70% 46
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70 63 and rivers and ponds Etc and leges
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including More than 70% of land we are
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contributing for the climate issues so
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that is the huge contribution of Nepal
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and we are conscious we are aware about
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the importance
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of uh this issue and for the future and
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when we talk about the future we talk
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about
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uh planet and people we have to shap the
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planet we have to shap the people
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and
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safer and
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safer Earth and safety of human beings
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there are some aspects I don't want to
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explain now because it will be longer so
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as your you ask me provision on the
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question of climate change that's our
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opinion and uh we are conscious about
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that and we all into our world to be
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conscious and treat at the point of
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origin from where the problem
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is well said although I'm supposed to
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start Q&A I have one more question for
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you our students many of them are
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entrepreneurs can you tell them why they
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should join you in Nepal as an
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entrepreneur what message would you like
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to give them
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I would like to
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request whoever are enterpr or who are
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not I would like to suggest to be
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entrepreneur and there are opportunities
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for start up there are other
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opportunities in the part too is
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speaking in
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three so I would like to
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and
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uh America is developed not because it
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is De and be become
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rich now China also
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become
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rich not because it was rich and
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developed but they developed and become
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rich so we have we cannot run
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away we cannot escape from the problems
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we have to develop our
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country we have to
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provide establish and provide good
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governance to the people to the
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nation rule of law and that rule must be
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just
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rule
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so just Rule and Rule of
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Law and there must be opportunity not
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only for small junk of people but for
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all and the benefits which all the
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nation that should
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be distributed
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equ that
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is my opinion so young people who are
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nents young people they can return to
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the
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country return back and they can
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contribute to Dev
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work so now let's hear what some of the
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students and I'm sure has a tradition of
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asking good questions to the students so
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hopefully they will be uh I will take
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two or three questions and then uh
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phrase it for
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you if you could introduce yourself if
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you feel comfortable and what school you
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are at Columbia will be very helpful so
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we'll do one on the right one on the
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left hi my name is is man dahal and I go
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to the School of the Arts um my question
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to the Prime Minister only would be like
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we've been talking about a vast majority
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of Nepali youth have been working abroad
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due to the limited opportunities in
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Nepal um you and your government has
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been in power for over decades now what
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is this not a concern for you and the
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government because as an emerging Nation
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I see this as a huge threat to not have
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the youth in the country
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secondly you have been saying that you
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want to you think the youths are
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important and they need to come back but
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why is the older generation like you and
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other leaders not willing to step down
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or aside to let the youth run the
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country thank
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you ask under graduate of School of
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International public affairs my question
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goes to the geography you already talked
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about you're located between the two
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most populated countries in the world
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how do you balance the relationship with
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both countries on political and economic
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levels thank
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you one
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more thank you my name is C Broski
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Fenster I'm a freshman in Columbia
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College majoring in political science my
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question is regarding Rural Life in
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Nepal and out migration since 2021 Nepal
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has negative population growth rates in
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over 30 Mountain districts as rural
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areas are depopulating urban areas are
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growing equally as rapid with this Gap
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increasing by the thousands every
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passing day Nepal citizens of rural
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communities have come out and said that
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the reasons for this out migration can
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be boiled down to lack of economic
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opportunities in education and
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Healthcare also rainfed agriculture has
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been impacted uh due to climate change
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and disease and this has deinen divize
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the production of important goods that
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vitalize the Nepal the economy with
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these Grim prospects rural populations
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have been and moving elsewhere you said
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earlier that a possible plan to combat
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this out migration is to increase
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agricultural based jobs but yet these
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agricultural based jobs and the
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communities are the very ones that are
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leaving due to lack of resources my
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question is as someone who comes from a
00:28:42
rural Town myself how does an apali
00:28:44
government plan on prioritizing these
00:28:45
rural populations which are pivotal to
00:28:47
the nation thank
00:28:50
you I can sum it up a little bit but I
00:28:53
think one of the aspects that has been
00:28:55
said although the balance between China
00:28:57
and India is a different one is the fact
00:29:00
of how do you incentivize the rural the
00:29:03
young to participate whether in the
00:29:06
leadership or in
00:29:10
work in my opinion first of
00:29:15
all we have to love our
00:29:21
country
00:29:24
if I cannot abandon my mother if she is
00:29:31
I have to look after
00:29:34
all problems and try to
00:29:38
Sol and if she is poor I shouldn't
00:29:42
act I must try to change the
00:29:46
situation we are and particularly the
00:29:51
youth
00:29:54
are not to run away from the problems
00:29:58
but to face the
00:30:01
problem
00:30:02
and get victory over
00:30:06
them every country was
00:30:09
poor there were no
00:30:12
facilities one when in our country there
00:30:15
was
00:30:17
education there
00:30:19
was medicine there was
00:30:23
treatment so many things so many
00:30:26
countries were not formed
00:30:30
that sure we have very glorious
00:30:34
history but because
00:30:37
of
00:30:42
different selfish
00:30:44
rulers and autocratic
00:30:47
systems we
00:30:54
were we didn't get opportunity to
00:30:57
develop
00:30:59
and people
00:31:00
were that era was dark we a dark era of
00:31:05
aut aut and people didn't get
00:31:09
opportunity to to get rid of that but
00:31:12
finally people TR the autocratic
00:31:15
system and brought back
00:31:21
democracy democracy is not a
00:31:25
gift it is a fruit
00:31:29
after the fight of the people they got
00:31:32
similarly we
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00:31:36
can even
00:31:39
now I realize that there are problems
00:31:42
but we can
00:31:44
reach and we can we have
00:31:48
to be
00:31:51
self-confident we
00:31:54
can and
00:31:58
so find the incentive to the
00:32:02
is
00:32:10
uh even in the adverse
00:32:14
situation adverse situations are not for
00:32:18
Always There are until then until when
00:32:21
we to let them if we
00:32:26
reject then they come
00:32:31
to
00:32:34
way and as I mentioned before too we
00:32:37
have provided opportunities to the
00:32:40
youths the
00:32:41
startups
00:32:44
loans and other opportunities as
00:32:49
well yes of course the salary in Nepal
00:32:52
is not
00:32:55
high but uh
00:32:59
the market is
00:33:00
also very
00:33:03
cheap price
00:33:07
like is not that
00:33:11
much we can buy things and a very
00:33:17
cheaper and so far
00:33:22
another question that how we are
00:33:24
balancing both giant Neighbors
00:33:28
neighbors are
00:33:31
neighbors that is saying that you cannot
00:33:34
change your
00:33:36
neighbor so we have to understand that
00:33:39
we cannot change our neighbors and our
00:33:41
neighbors also cannot change their
00:33:44
neighbors
00:33:46
too
00:33:47
so we must deal with them they are not
00:33:52
our enemies they are our friends so with
00:33:55
friends we have to put our
00:33:59
problems grievances demands what
00:34:03
and
00:34:07
whatever our feeling
00:34:09
is and what problems we are
00:34:13
facing we can talk to them frankly
00:34:18
candidly openly share our views with
00:34:22
them and through the discussion through
00:34:25
the
00:34:25
dialogues we can
00:34:28
isal point with the proof with the
00:34:33
facts and being unest on the
00:34:36
truth we have to deal with them we can
00:34:41
but we cannot give up
00:34:44
our naal interest
00:34:47
sovereignty
00:34:49
Independence freedom
00:34:51
is a must for
00:34:54
us it's very very important
00:34:57
and Nepali people must
00:35:00
be I would like to tell Nepali
00:35:04
students May are here must be proud that
00:35:08
we have no independent
00:35:10
day because we are
00:35:15
never we are always independent
00:35:20
so there a matter of glory and
00:35:25
that that Glory we have to translate
00:35:28
into a
00:35:30
prosperous
00:35:31
country
00:35:33
and we have to make our people happy and
00:35:38
my
00:35:39
governments and passes now is
00:35:43
to our aim is our goal is prosperous
00:35:48
Nepal happy
00:35:51
Neal we want to make Nepal a prosperous
00:35:54
one and the Nepali people happy
00:35:58
people that is our go and on
00:36:03
this uh I don't take as to Joint
00:36:08
neighbors with different political and
00:36:10
political systems and economic systems
00:36:16
Etc as
00:36:18
a negative aspect but that is positive
00:36:22
thing we have if we can
00:36:25
produce we have more already to use
00:36:29
markets of the
00:36:31
world so we can use them those markets
00:36:35
if we produce if we do not produce and
00:36:38
we if we just import and just we become
00:36:41
consumers of
00:36:43
others markets of others consumers of
00:36:46
other our small
00:36:48
country cannot maintain
00:36:54
that next one what about the last
00:36:56
question well I think you answer we'll
00:36:59
get some more questions we'll start with
00:37:01
over here on the
00:37:02
right hi I'm Melissa from The Graduate
00:37:05
School of Education psychology and
00:37:07
health and I just wanted to ask the
00:37:09
prime minister with the discussion of
00:37:10
democracy and peace why the pal decided
00:37:13
to abstain at the United Nations General
00:37:16
Assembly on demands of ending the
00:37:18
Israeli occupation in Palestine while
00:37:20
other South Asian Nations voted in
00:37:26
favor uh good evening prime minister uh
00:37:29
Namaste U my name is om Desai I'm a
00:37:32
first year student at Columbia College
00:37:34
studying political science and economics
00:37:36
uh my question for you is this I'm the
00:37:38
son of two hardworking indian-american
00:37:41
um errants they immigrated from India to
00:37:43
the United States almost 30 years ago
00:37:46
and they've always spoke fondly of the
00:37:47
relationship between India and Nepal our
00:37:49
two countries share a very unique
00:37:51
Brotherhood very um religiously
00:37:53
culturally and geopolitically recently I
00:37:55
know you met with Prime Minister Modi in
00:37:57
New York and discussed issues on energy
00:38:00
trade and more and so my question for
00:38:02
you is this in the context of the 2015
00:38:05
um blockade and also your uh new and
00:38:07
going relationship with India how can we
00:38:10
best preserve the relationship and
00:38:12
create a dynamic relationship between
00:38:13
our two countries that evolves with the
00:38:15
20 21st century and respects the
00:38:18
sovereignties and interests of both of
00:38:20
our countries in the
00:38:22
region one more question over here hi
00:38:26
prime minister my name is zond cun am a
00:38:28
freshman at Columbia College and my
00:38:31
question is about your neighbor you're
00:38:33
mentioning earlier about how you can't
00:38:35
necessarily change your neighbors you
00:38:36
have to deal with them so your neighbor
00:38:38
in China has engaged in more border
00:38:40
disputes in recent history The New York
00:38:42
Times reported that according to
00:38:43
satellite imagery China has been
00:38:45
building more Villages inside what would
00:38:47
many would consider to be bhan alongside
00:38:50
sending more warships and building more
00:38:51
islands in the South China Sea and what
00:38:54
many in the International Community to
00:38:55
believe not to be China's Terror
00:38:57
territory what are your thoughts on
00:38:59
China's current exertion of authority on
00:39:02
other nations near and around Nepal
00:39:04
thank
00:39:07
you two of them are continuation of the
00:39:10
first one how you deal with India and
00:39:13
China and the other one is what is your
00:39:16
position on an international issue so I
00:39:18
leave it to
00:39:24
you International issue particularly
00:39:28
Palestine Gaza in the
00:39:30
sense we are always in favor of Peace we
00:39:32
are from the birthplace of Lord Buddha
00:39:35
and the P of Buddhism everybody knows
00:39:39
that and by history we were always in
00:39:44
favor of peace and Nepal is a very
00:39:46
peaceful
00:39:47
country and our
00:39:49
ideology is
00:39:52
peace
00:39:53
Harmony compassion tolerance
00:39:58
coexistence that is our
00:40:00
ideology so the basic of our foreign
00:40:03
policy we determined that we qu that
00:40:08
friendship with all and with not that is
00:40:12
our fundamental foreign
00:40:16
policy
00:40:18
uh
00:40:21
so
00:40:23
under questions of uh Wars conflict of
00:40:28
violences
00:40:29
or such things in different parts of the
00:40:32
world like Russia Ukraine war we are not
00:40:37
in favor of war and we we are a neutral
00:40:41
country we are non Alli country we are
00:40:45
between two giant neighbors we want to
00:40:49
be very good neighbor not bad neighbor
00:40:52
we don't want to create problems for our
00:40:55
neighbors too we don't want
00:40:58
similarly we don't never we we do not
00:41:01
til to this or that side but we want
00:41:05
peace
00:41:06
genuinely we
00:41:09
pray we
00:41:10
talk we
00:41:13
request
00:41:15
and we make efforts
00:41:19
to according to our
00:41:24
capacity and power of peace Global Peace
00:41:28
we are in favor of
00:41:31
dment of course construction of this
00:41:34
type of weapons and others we are not in
00:41:38
that favor but we are in favor
00:41:42
of now we have to
00:41:46
aish Weapons of Mass
00:41:49
destructions that is our desire because
00:41:53
weapons are not made for to kill the FES
00:41:56
or
00:41:58
muskers weapons are made for what we
00:42:01
know so weapons are
00:42:04
never match with the humanarian feeling
00:42:07
and the
00:42:10
ultimate
00:42:12
desire and HS and ws and so things of
00:42:16
human
00:42:18
beings now we are seeing Israel and
00:42:24
Hamas Hamas attacked Israel that was not
00:42:28
good thing it was bad but in that name
00:42:32
in that PR Israel is again
00:42:37
destroying the innocent
00:42:40
children innocent old people who are not
00:42:44
involved in war who are not
00:42:48
criminal and the PA in the
00:42:52
hospital we had no crime they are being
00:42:55
killed so
00:42:57
we are in favor of Peace not against
00:43:02
any against war and fav of Peace we
00:43:08
are
00:43:11
and the relationship with
00:43:14
India as I mentioned before we want to
00:43:17
be very good
00:43:20
neighbor not bad
00:43:22
neighor we cannot think against our
00:43:26
neighbors
00:43:28
[Applause]
00:43:31
and anything bad for them we cannot
00:43:36
think we
00:43:39
are always in favor
00:43:43
of Peace inside any country inside any
00:43:47
region and local we are always in FA of
00:43:51
Peace worldwide
00:43:54
everywhere and we want to
00:43:57
we have very long history of Friendship
00:44:00
with our
00:44:03
neighbors not after the history was
00:44:05
written but before the
00:44:08
history we are very friendly People to
00:44:11
People religions when there was no
00:44:14
diplomacy was
00:44:15
developed at that time People to People
00:44:19
relationship
00:44:20
was
00:44:23
accident and if somebody wants to
00:44:26
destroy the friendship between two
00:44:29
countries
00:44:31
or if we talk about bilateral
00:44:34
relationship with different countries
00:44:37
with both of our
00:44:41
neighbors nobody
00:44:46
can the this
00:44:48
friendship is
00:44:52
undestroyable it is Master sometime of
00:44:55
course
00:44:57
when people live together they have
00:45:01
contradiction when you have never met
00:45:03
anybody somebody there cannot be any
00:45:07
type of
00:45:09
contradiction because you don't know him
00:45:12
or her when you don't know him or her
00:45:15
then from where the contradiction
00:45:20
comes when you sleep together then one
00:45:23
may put his or her leg on you
00:45:27
if you sleep on separate with no problem
00:45:32
that if
00:45:36
neighbor something happens
00:45:38
once small girl goes
00:45:41
to neighbor she breaks a
00:45:45
plate and the neighbor says what
00:45:48
training you are providing what
00:45:50
education you are providing to your
00:45:53
office
00:45:54
friends your daughter broke my plate the
00:45:58
next
00:45:59
day her son comes this side and breaks
00:46:04
another car again another neighbor say
00:46:08
these type of things
00:46:12
happen between the
00:46:15
neighbors
00:46:18
so if neighbors inside the family there
00:46:24
always a little bit small
00:46:27
problems but they are not that much
00:46:30
serious and within family
00:46:35
similarly between the
00:46:37
neighbors there can be small problems
00:46:39
too because they are neighbors if they
00:46:43
were far
00:46:46
away there couldn't be any but if they
00:46:49
are neighbors that can
00:46:52
be so we have to be
00:46:57
responsible and we must understand each
00:47:01
other's each other's
00:47:04
problems so in my opinion there are not
00:47:07
that much serious problems which we
00:47:10
cannot resolve
00:47:13
between our Southern neor and US
00:47:18
similarly Northern neor and us all both
00:47:22
neighbors
00:47:25
are I must say that
00:47:30
do I'm glad you emphasize people to
00:47:32
people because at the end of the day
00:47:35
that's what it takes people to people
00:47:37
not just at the high level but at the
00:47:39
ordinary every level and we need to
00:47:42
engage engage
00:47:45
engage without engagement we can't
00:47:48
understand uh we're running out of time
00:47:50
although we can love to keep you all
00:47:52
night but I think some we so we'll only
00:47:54
take one more question I think it's from
00:47:57
this side so uh since I think you want
00:48:01
freedom also freedom to enjoy New
00:48:04
York thank you my name is Alejandro I'm
00:48:07
a sophomore majoring statistics and
00:48:09
political science your Excellency as you
00:48:11
have rightly emphasized on lines of
00:48:13
climate change theal desp theme landlock
00:48:16
is intricately connected to the Global
00:48:17
Environmental ecosystem including the
00:48:19
oceans given the shed responsibility we
00:48:22
all have in protecting the planet how
00:48:23
would you incentivize Coastal Nations to
00:48:25
mitigate ocean contamination recognizing
00:48:27
that such pollution through its
00:48:29
far-reaching impacts ultimately affects
00:48:31
the High Altitude regions of the
00:48:33
Himalayas and the promise of as you call
00:48:35
it a happy Nepal what diplomatic or
00:48:37
multilateral approaches might Nepal
00:48:38
advocate for to ensure that the
00:48:41
preservation of the oceans becomes a
00:48:42
collective priority given its vital link
00:48:44
to the mountains of Nepal and climate
00:48:46
change all around the
00:48:49
world that's a large question so I'll
00:48:53
leave it to you the answer as you wish
00:49:02
uh thank you very much for your
00:49:06
question uh again you raised question
00:49:09
about conservation
00:49:13
climate Etc how many questions were
00:49:16
there excuse me how many questions were
00:49:18
there well he's basically he's asking
00:49:21
the effect of the oceans as well on
00:49:25
yours and what is your position and how
00:49:27
do you handle it you all landlock so you
00:49:31
may
00:49:32
not
00:49:35
yeah
00:49:41
uh our is
00:49:44
a
00:49:46
diversified
00:49:48
country very very natural divers
00:49:54
diversity uh geograph
00:49:57
IAL
00:49:59
biological
00:50:01
Botanical
00:50:03
social different type of diversities are
00:50:06
there m Everest and other
00:50:10
mountains more higher than
00:50:14
8,000
00:50:16
M higher than 8,000
00:50:19
M there are some 14 paks more than
00:50:24
10,000 M altitude
00:50:26
[Applause]
00:50:30
there are PS but we talk about one range
00:50:34
then there are 800 m
00:50:38
8 mountains more than 800 M
00:50:43
8,000 M
00:50:45
altitude so it's Unique and similarly
00:50:49
there are
00:50:52
diversities among the animals grasses
00:50:55
plants
00:50:57
Etc and animals pieces BL bars
00:51:03
everything we are conscious about to
00:51:06
protect
00:51:08
those uh animals we have elephant
00:51:12
Rhino and so
00:51:14
on we have daffies Ys Etc at the areas
00:51:20
in the mountain areas we have elephants
00:51:23
and Ys B ET
00:51:28
and Pi another uh different types of
00:51:33
more than 6,000 or more wordss we have
00:51:39
similarly varieties of PES varieties of
00:51:46
animals and it
00:51:48
makes
00:51:51
ecosystem and it
00:51:55
makes real
00:51:58
nature it makes the nature where we can
00:52:02
see we can observe the
00:52:08
nature and we can see not only the
00:52:11
beauty of
00:52:13
nature
00:52:16
but
00:52:19
the we cannot imagine that magical
00:52:25
nature uh
00:52:27
we
00:52:29
are working
00:52:31
to conservation or
00:52:35
conservation protection of forest
00:52:37
animals
00:52:39
Etc and protection of
00:52:43
our geographical
00:52:46
landscape our mountains as I mentioned
00:52:49
before
00:52:50
too our
00:52:54
mountains they are not only important
00:52:56
for
00:52:58
but our entire world there are because
00:53:01
the Earth turns around within 24
00:53:07
hours so the
00:53:11
time comes from that one circle around
00:53:16
the
00:53:17
Sun that creates the
00:53:21
time on the
00:53:24
so these things are very importent that
00:53:28
it is
00:53:29
wi thank you I'm glad you emphasize
00:53:32
people to people and nature at the end
00:53:35
of the day we're part of one system and
00:53:37
we have to appreciate and help each
00:53:40
other so thank you very much we have
00:53:43
more questions but I know you would like
00:53:45
your freedom too so thank you and you're
00:53:47
always welcome here at Colombia
