US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will be here after attending the 18th Saarc Summit to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 26-27.
Biswal will arrive here to participate in meetings with government officials, civil society and labour group leaders, and members of the business community.
Biswal will travel to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, and Switzerland November 23-December 5, said a media note issued from Washington on Friday night.She is likely to arrive here on Thursday night and stay for two days, according to a diplomatic source.
She will travel to New Delhi, India for internal consultations and bilateral meetings.
The US official will then travel to Kathmandu, Nepal where she will represent the United States as an observer state at the 18th Annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Summit.
The summit will focus on deepening regional economic connectivity and expanding South Asia’s role in the global economy.
While in Kathmandu, she will meet with Nepali political leaders, civil society activists, and business leaders.
Afterward, she will travel to Tashkent, Uzbekistan for the Annual Bilateral Consultations and discuss with the government of Uzbekistan the full range of bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest.
Finally, Assistant Secretary Biswal will travel to Basel, Switzerland to participate in the OSCE Ministerial.
She will hold meetings with senior leaders from the OSCE and Central Asian nations. – UNB
