Climate Justice Tops Agenda as Nepal PM Heads to UN After Deadly Floods Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah is set to make his first foreign trip as head of government, arriving in New York for the 81st UN General Assembly.
The timing couldn't be more poignant, given the devastation wrought by the Bhote Koshi Trishuli disaster that ravaged Nepal's Himalayan region.
The scale of the destruction has prompted a rare display of bipartisanship, with Shah's initial decision to send Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal taking a backseat to his own leadership on this issue.