KATHMANDU, JUN 26 -
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai was not able to meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during the Rio+20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Bhattarai held separate meetings with Indian PM Manmohan Singh and other heads of state and government on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development held through June 20-22.
Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Nepal’s Embassy in Brazil had requested the Chinese side to fix a meeting between the two leaders, it was not immediately clear whether the Nepali bureaucracy failed to follow a due diplomatic protocol for the meeting or the Chinese side gave the Nepali PM a deliberate snub.
Wen, however, attended a session on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) chaired by PM Bhattarai on June 21 where he spoke briefly and supported the agendas put forth by the LDCs. But Wen could not meet Bhattarai separately as the Indian PM did, an official said. On June 22, when Premier Wen left Brazil, Bhattarai was still in Rio.
Wen held nine separate meetings with other dignitaries until midnight on June 21. Nepal had made the request for the meeting with the Chinese PM side on June 14. However, “neither the MoFA nor the Nepali mission in Brazil followed up the date with the Chinese side,” an official said. “We tried to arrange for a meeting between the two leaders on June 22 but in vain.”
Source: http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/06/26/top-story/bhattarai-fails-to-meet-chinese-counterpart/356163/
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