Their Majesties King Gyanendra and Queen Komal returned home after completing their three-week-long tour of some Asian and African countries.
Their Majesties King Gyanendra and Queen Komal returned home after completing their three-week-long tour of some Asian and African countries through New Baneshwore, Friday, Dec 02 2005. nepalnews.com/ks
Chairman of the Royal Representative Council Crown Prince Paras, Crown Princess Himani, Vice-Chairmen of the Council of Ministers, Ministers, Chiefs of the Constitutional bodies and heads of the diplomatic missions were present at the Tribhuvan International Airport to welcome their majesties upon their arrival.
Various `welcome arches’ were erected along Tribhuvan International Airport- Maitighar- Singha Durbar section of the road to welcome Their Majesties.
People queued on two sides of the road to welcome Their Majesties. Reports said that the Government sent a written order to all the ministries, departments and corporations to ensure that their staff line up on both sides of the Singha Durbar-Bhadrakali section of the road to welcome Their Majesties upon their arrival.
Their Majesties had left for the Bangaldeshi capital of Dhaka on November 11 leading the Nepali delegation to the 13th SAARC summit.
This was the first time since the restoration of multi-party polity in 1990 that monarch led the Nepali delegation to SAARC.
From Dhaka, Their Majesties left for Tunis, the capital of Tunisia to take part in the World Society of Information Society.
From Tunisia, Their Majesties visited South Africa, Tanzania, inspected Royal Nepalese Army personnel deployed under the UN peacekeeping mission at Burundi before traveling to the Arab Republic of Egypt.