Peace Corps Deputy Director David E White Jr visited Nepal earlier last week. During his five-day stay, White held meetings with government and civil society representatives to thank them for their long-standing support to the Peace Corps program since its founding and discussed plans to expand Peace Corps programming in Nepal. The Editor-in-chief of Nagarik Daily, Guna Raj Luitel, and the Editor of Republica, Kosh Raj Koirala, sat with White to learn about various aspects of Nepal-US relations, focusing mainly on the activities related to Peace Corps volunteers in Nepal. Excerpts:
KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Nepal Republic Media organized an interactive program on government advertisement on Monday. During the event, communication entrepreneurs and advertising agencies criticized the government agencies for trying to curb government advertisement through the Public Procurement Act.
On transitional justice, we are very keen to see it brought to a good positive conclusion for the good of the nation. We are not by any means the only partner. I would say the entire international community is very interested and seeking to be supportive of what happens there. I think it is important to note, though, that from our perspective, it has to be Nepali-led; it has to be victim-centric and it has to be something that addresses the need and meets the high standards that are required to bring peace and settle a long term conflict in a way that is good for the nation as a whole.