Kathmandu, Mar. 31: Minister for Foreign Affairs Chakra Prasad Bastola is leaving for Geneva tomorrow.

During his stay in Geneva, Mr Bastola will address the 56th session of the Human Rights Commission.

Nepal is the chairman of the 56th session of the Human Rights Commission.

After attending the meeting in Geneva Minister Bastola will leave for Cartagena, Colombia to take part in the 13th Ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Nations to be held from April 7 to 9, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The major agenda of the 13th Ministerial meeting is to approve and address the current issues before the nam countries as well as to review the progress made on the issues after the 12th nam summit held in Durban, South Africa in 1998.

The Minister will lead the Nepalese delegation to the first south summit to be held in Havana, Cuba from April 10-14, organised at the initiation of the group of 77 of the developing nations and china.

The summit is expected to deliberate on issues of economic and social importance in the context of ensuing north-south dialogues, and promoting cooperation between the developing countries of the world.

The summit is the first gathering of the heads of states and governments from 133 developing countries.

At the meetings, Minister Bastola will be joined by permanent representative (designate) to the united Nations Murari Raj Sharma and joint secretary Pushkar Man Singh Rajbhandari and the senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.