DePers.nl: Kabinetsvergadering op Mount Everest
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Nepalese ministers on Friday will hold a Cabinet meet to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
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Nepal holds historic high-altitude Cabinet meeting in Everest: December 04, 2009 NST
SYANGBOCHE (SOLUKHUMBU), DEC 04 - The much-hyped Cabinet meeting took place in Kalapatthar plateau near Mt. Everest Base Camp at an altitude of 5,242 metres (17,192 feet)on Friday.
Twenty-four Cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, reached Lukla Airport in Solukhumbu district on Thursday to take part in the historic meeting.
The government will make public the decisions of the Cabinet at a press meet in Syangboche (3,780 m) at 10:30 am . Twenty-three ministers flew to Lukla from the Capital, whereas Prime Minister Nepal arrived here after attending a programme in Ilam.
The ministers had stayed in Lukla on Thursday. They arrived in Syangboche this morning in MI 17 and Shree Air helicopters. Four ministers will be missing the meeting. Defence Minister Bidhya Bhandari and Health Minister Umakanta Chaudhary cant make it due to health reasons whereas Minister for Commerce and Supplies Rajendra Mahato is currently on a foreign visit. Minister of State for Science and Technology Indra Prasad Dhungel will also be absent.
On the eve of the UN climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen, the government decided to hold a Cabinet meeting near the Everest base camp to draw global attention to the threat of climate change in the country.
A large number of national and foreign journalists, doctors and government officials have arrived in Syangboche to cover the event.
The ministerial team flew to Kalapatthar along with 30 mountaineers and six medicos after health check-up in Syangboche this morning. They were taken to the region a day before the meeting for acclimatisation. Today's Cabinet will declare Banke National Park as new national park and Api-Nampa and Gauri-Shankar as conservation areas. Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Dipak Bohara said the Cabinet would also endorse the agenda prepared for the Copenhagen summit.
Sources: Star News, ekantipur, Nepalnews
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