-Ambassador Lemp

Kathmandu: The Nepal Foundation for Advanced Studies or otherwise the NEFAS last week invited at its Kirtipur office the newly accredited German Ambassador Mr.Ruidiger Lemp and exchanged views on contemporary national and international events.

On the occasion, the executive director of the Foundation, Professor Ananda Shrestha dwelt at length on the academic activities accomplished by the NEFAS in the past.

Welcoming the German Ambassador, Mr. Shrestha recalled with admiration the moral support extended to the NEFAS by former German Ambassador, Martin Schneller who witnessed the tumultuous days of the 1990s when this nation switched itself from the Panchayat to this order.

Mr. Shrestha expressed his Foundation’s desire to work closely with the Embassy of the Republic of Germany in order to enhance the multi-faceted bilateral ties for each other’s benefit.

Two renowned Nepali scholars, Dev Raj Dahal, executive member of the NEFAS, and Professor Guna Nidhi Sharma, T.U, briefed the distinguished visitor about the state of Nepalese politics and the economy from academic perspective.

Later, Ambassador Lemp assured the scholars that his country would continue to remain as a major donor to this Himalayan Kingdom.

” The massive aid and donations pouring into this country will all go down the drain if there is no political stability and good governance”‘, said Ambassador Lemp.

For Nepal’s democracy to survive for long, added Ambassador Lemp, the Nepalese leaders must give due attention in making literate the masses and this could only be accomplished when people and the children in the remote areas were provided education.

The meeting between the German Ambassador and the NEFAS scholars was facilitated by the Telegraph Weekly.