{"id":437573,"date":"2026-10-10T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=437573"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:37:18","slug":"foreign-minister-khanal-returns-home-after-climate-diplomacy-and-australia-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/437573.html","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs Minister Khanal returns home after climate diplomacy and Australia visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Foreign Affairs Minister Shishir Khanal has returned home after participating in high-level climate change events in Fiji and Tuvalu and completing an official visit to Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to reporters at Tribhuvan International Airport today, Foreign Affairs Minister Khanal said Australia has announced an additional 15 million Australian dollars in grant assistance for post-flood reconstruction, bringing its total support for flood disaster response to 26 million Australian dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Pre-COP Leaders\u2019 Plenary, he highlighted Nepal\u2019s priorities for COP-31, including limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, grant-based climate finance, effective mobilisation of the Loss and Damage Fund, and cooperation from Everest to the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his visit to Australia, Foreign Affairs Minister Khanal called on Governor-General Sam Mostyn at Government House in Canberra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides also discussed climate cooperation, including Himalayan conservation, climate resilience and the establishment of early warning systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In separate meetings with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, discussions covered climate-resilient infrastructure, technical cooperation, and sharing experiences in flood and fire management and post-disaster reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Khanal said Australia has announced an additional 15 million Australian dollars in grant assistance for post-flood reconstruction, bringing its total support for flood disaster response to 26 million Australian dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":430495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-437573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437575,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437573\/revisions\/437575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437573"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=437573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}