Kathmandu, Aug. 1 -- Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will depart for Turkmenistan on Sunday, leading a Nepali delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.

The conference is scheduled to take place in Awaza, Turkmenistan, from August 5-8.

Oli is attending the conference at the invitation of Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedow and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

He is scheduled to deliver an address in his capacity as the chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and also in his national capacity, the foreign ministry said.

In addition to his plenary speech, Oli will co-chair a high-l...