Keynote Address by Kul Chandra Gautam at Inaugural Conference of Nepal Public Health Foundation Kathmandu, 30 June 2010 Let me start by congratulating, most sincerely, our Chairman and other founders, advisors and Executive Committee members of the Nepal Public Health Foundation. It is an enormous honour for me to be invited to deliver an inaugural More...

Statement by Kul Chandra Gautam At Religions for Peace Global Youth Network Conference Kathmandu, 16 August 2010 I wish to congratulate the Religions for Peace Nepal and the “Arms Down! Campaign for Shared Security” led by the Religions for Peace Global Youth Network for organizing this very timely conference. Two days ago, we had a More...

By Kul C. Gautam, First BP Koirala Eye Foundation Memorial Lecture, Kathmandu, 2 April 2010 It was a pleasant surprise and a great honour for me to be invited to deliver this first memorial lecture named after BP Koirala. As I look around this conference hall, there are many distinguished people here who are far More...

Statement by Kul Chandra Gautam At Seminar organized by Nepal Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS) Kathmandu, 12 January 2010 Article 4.7 of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and article 147 of the Interim Constitution of Nepal refer to “democratization” of the Nepal Army. For this purpose the Interim Council of Ministers was expected to prepare More...

Statement by Kul Chandra Gautam At Seminar on Nepali Model of Integration and Rehabilitation organized by Nepal Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS) Kathmandu, 12 January 2010 Among the many provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the issue of “monitoring, integration and rehabilitation” of Maoist combatants has now become central to concluding the peace process More...

Statement by Kul Chandra Gautam at Seminar on Nepali Model of Integration and Rehabilitation organized by Nepal Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS) Kathmandu, 11 January 2010 The title of this seminar: “A Nepali Model of Integration and Rehabilitation” is a very hopeful – perhaps I should say, a wishful – one. So far we are More...

Statement by Rotarian Kul Chandra Gautam at Rotary Youth Leadership Award Programme. Dharan, Nepal, 31 December 2009 It is a very special honour for me to join you all at this Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) programme in the historic town of Dharan. My special thanks go to our gracious hosts, the Rotary Clubs of More...

Remarks by Kul Chandra Gautam At the Launch of Sujeev Shakya’s Book:Unleashing Nepal Kathmandu, 12 October 2009 Sujeev Shakya is a dreamer; but a dreamer with his feet on the ground. In this book Unleashing Nepal, he unleashes a torrent of ideas, big and small, which cumulatively could change the face of Nepal within a More...

Keynote speech by Kul Chandra Gautam at a Programme Organized by the UN Association of Nepal Kathmandu, 21 October 2009 At a programme organized by UN Association of Nepal I wish to thank and congratulate the United Nations Association of Nepal for organizing this gathering to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the United Nations. It is More...

Remarks by Kul Chandra Gautam At Celebration of Four Decades of UNICEF in Nepal Kathmandu, 20 November 2009  We are gathered here today to celebrate four decades of a remarkable partnership for Nepal’s children. When the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) opened its country office in Kathmandu 40 years ago, the situation of Nepal’s children More...