Chairman Kanda is the first foreign official to meet Prime Minister Shah alone.
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Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda has met Prime Minister Balendra Shah. President Kanda met Prime Minister Shah at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar.
Prime Minister Shah, who has been refusing to meet with foreign ambassadors in Kathmandu and high-ranking foreign officials visiting Nepal, has met ADB President Masato Kanda.
President Kanda is the first foreign official to meet Prime Minister Shah alone. Kanda met Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle on Monday. A concessional loan agreement worth Rs 25 billion was signed between Nepal and ADB on the occasion of the meeting.
Kanda's visiting team also includes Nepali citizen Sona Shrestha, who is also the Director General of ADB's South Asia Department.
Earlier, the Prime Minister had not agreed to meet with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Samir Paul Kapur and US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy and US Ambassador to India Sergio Gore. After Prime Minister Shah refused to meet, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri's visit to Nepal was also postponed.
After becoming Prime Minister, Shah had broken the long tradition of meeting foreign diplomatic representatives individually and informally and had a group interaction with the heads of diplomatic missions in Kathmandu on Baisakh 26.
Then on Jestha 26, 23 ambassadors and deputy heads of the European Union in Kathmandu and New Delhi, as well as diplomatic representatives from Thailand, Russia, Australia, Myanmar, UAE, Norway, Finland, Malaysia and Brazil, jointly met with the Prime Minister.
