{"id":55579,"date":"2026-09-26T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55579"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:23:37","slug":"accelerate-development-cooperation-for-developing-nations-through-gdi-says-fm-khanal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/accelerate-development-cooperation-for-developing-nations-through-gdi-says-fm-khanal\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate development cooperation for developing nations through GDI, says FM Khanal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 26: Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has stated that the remaining time leading up to 2030 should be utilized as a period for accelerated implementation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a high-level meeting on the \u2018Global Development Initiative (GDI)\u2019 held at the United Nations headquarters in New York earlier today, he highlighted the need for international cooperation to translate development commitments into tangible results amidst the financial needs of developing nations, conflicts, the climate emergency, and debt burdens.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Foreign Minister&#8217;s private secretariat, he commended China&#8217;s continuous efforts to transform the concept originally proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping into practical cooperation. &#8220;Over the past five years, the GDI has expanded into a platform for partnership, resource mobilization, knowledge exchange, and practical cooperation across the developing world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the GDI\u2019s priorities spanning poverty reduction, food security, development finance, green development, industrialization, and the digital economy address many of the key priorities of the Global South. Nepal attaches great importance to the GDI&#8217;s emphasis on practical cooperation and South-South partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Khanal stated that as Nepal advances its development aspirations, there is significant potential for GDI cooperation in areas such as poverty reduction, agriculture and food security, renewable energy, resilient infrastructure, disaster preparedness, digital transformation, and human resource development.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that Nepal attaches importance to cooperation that facilitates the enhancement of production capacity, the transfer of knowledge and technology, skills development, and the expansion of opportunities through the country&#8217;s own capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 26: Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has stated that the remaining time leading up to 2030 should be utilized as a period for accelerated implementation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speaking at a high-level meeting on the \u2018Global Development Initiative (GDI)\u2019 held at the United Nations headquarters in New York earlier today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55579","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\/55579"}],"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=55579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55581,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55579\/revisions\/55581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}