{"id":50526,"date":"2026-07-01T18:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50526"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:44:21","slug":"saudi-ambassador-manikh-calls-on-speaker-aryal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/saudi-ambassador-manikh-calls-on-speaker-aryal\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Ambassador Manikh calls on Speaker Aryal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, July 1:<\/strong> Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Nepal, Fahd Mohammad A. Manikh, paid a courtesy call on Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal at the latter&#8217;s office today.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Speaker Aryal stated that the Federal Parliament of Nepal is interested in collaborating with the Shura Council of Saudi Arabia and informed that a Nepal-Saudi Arabia Parliamentary Friendship Group has been formed as per the recent decision of the Federal Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed confidence that cooperation between the parliaments of both countries on issues of mutual interest would be facilitated through the group, according to the Speaker&#8217;s private secretariat.<br \/>\nLikewise, Speaker Aryal expressed gratitude for the increased cooperation between Nepal and Saudi Arabia in the field of labour migration and expressed gratitude for Saudi Arabia giving priority to Nepalis.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Manikh stated that he was working to further strengthening the relations between Saudi Arabia and Nepal and is committed to expanding labour, trade, investment, tourism and people-to-people contacts between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that Nepal and Saudi Arabia are observing the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Youth, Labour and Employment, there are currently 384,865 Nepalis working in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, July 1: Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Nepal, Fahd Mohammad A. Manikh, paid a courtesy call on Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal at the latter&#8217;s office today. During the meeting, Speaker Aryal stated that the Federal Parliament of Nepal is interested in collaborating with the Shura Council of Saudi Arabia and informed that a Nepal-Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50526"}],"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=50526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50529,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50526\/revisions\/50529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}