KATHMANDU, Sept. 30 -- Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal has requested the Canadian government to establish a residential embassy of Canada in Nepal.

During his meeting with Assistant Deputy Minister of Global Affairs, Canada Paul Thoppil, Foreign Secretary Paudyal asked her to consider establishing Canadian representation in Nepal, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

In the third meeting of Nepal-Canada Bilateral Consultation Mechanism (BCM) held in Ottawa on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Paudyal requested Canadian side to make arrangements for the issuance of visas in Kathmandu in view of growing size of Nepali diaspora in Canada and increasing people to people contacts between the two countries. Currently, Nepali na...