Honourable Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr. Bhim Bahadur Rawal IUCN Country Representative, Praladh Thapa Centre for South Asian Studies Director, Mr. Nishchal Nath Pandey Excellencies, Government officials & invitees from development organizations DRR and Climate Change Experts from the EU Delegations in the region Media Representatives, participants from Nepal and abroad.
With a view of reinforcing and expanding cultural ties between European Union Member States represented in Qatar and the State of Qatar, the embassies of : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, as well as the British Council and the French Institute, have decided to join efforts in the field of culture by signing the founding charter of a European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) cluster in Qatar.
