{"id":53918,"date":"2026-08-29T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53918"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:35:39","slug":"foreign-ministers-of-nepal-china-hold-telephone-talks-over-flood-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/foreign-ministers-of-nepal-china-hold-telephone-talks-over-flood-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Ministers of Nepal, China Hold Telephone Talks Over Flood Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug,\u00a0 29: Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal held a telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday, focusing on the devastating floods along the Nepal-China border and ongoing rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, the two ministers expressed deep sorrow and condolences over the loss of lives and property in both countries caused by the floods in the border area.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed the ongoing search, rescue and relief operations in the Rasuwa-Gyirong port area, which was severely affected by the disaster. The two sides also discussed arrangements to facilitate the return of Nepali citizens stranded in China.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Khanal thanked the Chinese government for providing emergency humanitarian assistance following the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nepal\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two sides also agreed on the need for greater coordination in exchanging real-time hydrological and meteorological data and strengthening mechanisms to establish an effective early warning system for transboundary disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug,\u00a0 29: Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal held a telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday, focusing on the devastating floods along the Nepal-China border and ongoing rescue efforts. During the conversation, the two ministers expressed deep sorrow and condolences over the loss of lives and property in both countries caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53918"}],"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=53918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53920,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53918\/revisions\/53920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}