{"id":48863,"date":"2026-06-03T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48863"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:47:47","slug":"nepal-elected-chair-of-first-committee-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepal-elected-chair-of-first-committee-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal elected Chair of First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 3: Nepal has been elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, marking a notable diplomatic achievement for the country.<\/p>\n<p>The election is being viewed as international recognition of Nepal\u2019s more than seven decades of commitment to multilateralism, global peace, international security and efforts toward worldwide disarmament.<br \/>\nFollowing the election, Nepal\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Lok Bahadur Thapa, expressed gratitude to member states for their trust and support.<br \/>\nAccording to the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Thapa has pledged to discharge the responsibilities of the position with fairness, transparency and inclusiveness.<br \/>\nThe First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly is responsible for deliberations and decision-making on issues such as disarmament, international security, and global peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 3: Nepal has been elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, marking a notable diplomatic achievement for the country. The election is being viewed as international recognition of Nepal\u2019s more than seven decades of commitment to multilateralism, global peace, international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48866,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863\/revisions\/48866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}