President Bidya Devi Bhandari who is in New York in the course of attending the 63rd session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW-63) attended a reception hosted in her honor on Wednesday evening.
Arjun Kumar Karki, Nepal's Ambassador to the United States and Amrit Kumar Rai, Nepal's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, jointly hosted a reception to honor the President.
The diplomatic community based in New York, UN office-bearers, business community people and representatives of Nepali community were present on the occasion.
President Bhandari is arriving Kathmandu on Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Dhanmaya Thapa, Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizen, delivered her speech in the CSW session.
On the occasion, Minister Thapa presented the progress Nepal made in the area of gender equality and expressed Nepal's further commitment to that end, according to New York-based Nepal's Permanent Mission to the UN.
Informing that Nepal has made necessary amendments to relevant laws for ending gender discrimination, she expressed Nepal's readiness to work in collaboration with international organizations for the empowerment of women and adolescents toward attaining Sustainable Development Goals
Likewise, Niru Devi Pal, lawmaker and President of Women and Social Committee of the House of Representatives, stressed on the need of the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration.
