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Foreign Minister Dr. Arju Rana Deuba has said that most of the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is like rescuing Nepali citizens abroad.
Minister Rana said this during the training organized by the Congress Central Training Institute for the Regional Chairman of the Party's House of Representatives and the Head of the Training Branch at Bhairahawa in Rupandehi. She said, 'Nowadays, Nepalis are facing so many problems abroad that the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is only to rescue them.'
Minister Rana informed that the work of rescuing Nepalis in the world is very difficult due to limited resources, means and manpower. Currently, there are only 40 Nepali embassies in the world, but Nepalis have reached more than 100 countries. Minister Rana said that the Ministry of Information does not know about where and how the Nepalis have reached and they only know when someone is in trouble and needs to be rescued. Giving the example of
Bangladesh, she said, 'It's like the students who went to study medicine in Bangladesh only got to know how many students there are after they had a problem. But in the media, the news comes as if they should have been brought to Nepal within a couple of days. Even at that time, the limited manpower in the embassy in Dhaka coordinated . There are similar situations elsewhere, but we are still working.'
Rana informed that even though Nepal has banned women from going to the Middle Eastern countries as domestic workers, thousands of women are reaching those countries through illegal routes, and if they get into trouble later, they may face a lot of difficulties in rescuing them.
Minister Rana therefore clarified that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has created more posts through 'ONM' to provide consular services to the Nepali diaspora around the world and to rise above traditional diplomacy and expand Nepal's foreign relations and this will make things easier in the future.
She informed that consulates have been established in places where there is no Nepali mission but there are many Nepalis, such as Texas and San Francisco in America and Dubai in UAE. Rana said that it is impossible to say that such news will not come from other places like the US has stopped foreign aid, and suggested that the Congress should conduct a village-to-village campaign to develop the country by itself and employ the youth in the country.
