Israeli exhibition held in Biratnagar

December 5, 2001
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Biratnagar: Kathmandu based diplomatic missions apparently have started feeling that Nepal was not confined to Kathmandu valley only and that outside the valley the real Nepal existed.

Indications to this effect were made available when some two years back the Finland embassy displayed some of its products in Biratnagar for the local inhabitants. Since then a few diplomatic missions have been expressing their desire to organize exhibitions apart from Kathmandu in towns such as Pokhara and Biratnagar.

Only last week, the embassy of Israel followed the suit and gave the local inhabitants an opportunity to understand a country about which they listen only through the international media in a different manner.

The title of the photo exhibition was “Jerusalem from the air” which was inaugurated by the Mayor of the Biratnagar sub-municipality, Mr. Ramesh Chandra Poudel, last Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion Mayor Poudel expressed his profound happiness over the happening of the event in his hometown and assured the Israeli Ambassador that his municipal corporation will extend all the needed cooperation to make the exhibition a grand success.

The ex-vice chairman of the Upper House, Mr. Chiranjibi Rijal, recalled his talks with late B.P.Koirala what the latter had told him regarding the men, culture, and the stage of development of the country upon his return from Israel’s visit.

The Israeli Ambassador Avraham Nir told the gathering that he possessed a sort of sentimental attachment with Biratnagar for its was this town which produced personalities like late B.P.Koirala who remained instrumental in establishing diplomatic relation with his country in the 1960s.

“‘We will never forget late Koirala for he was the one who despite various prevailing political constraints dared to establish diplomatic ties with Israel. It was a daring move indeed”‘, added Ambassador Nir.

The Israeli diplomat, however, said that time had come to give a boost to the existing bilateral ties so that both the countries benefit from each other’s experiences.

Biratnagar Press Club president Jiveshwar Lakhe opined that exhibition of this sort contribute immensely in understanding the prevailing tradition, culture, society and the likes better.

Speaking from the chair, Mr. Kosh Raj Regmi hoped that events of this kind would go a long way in enhancing the bilateral ties that so happily subsist in between Nepal and Israel.

Telegraph adds: On the occasion Ambassador Abraham Nir presented books to Purvanchal University, Management campus and Mahendra Morang campus.

The Biratnagar Press Club had assisted the Israel embassy in organizing this event in Biratnagar.