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Nepal Council of World Affairs (NCWA) was established in 1948 as a non-governmental and non-profit making organization with a commitment to foreign policy deliberations and other key issues of global concerns, under the patronage of the late King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev. The late King Mahendra, late King Birendra and former King Gyanendra have granted patronage to the Council, as Head of the State.
The Council organizes addresses by the Heads of the State, Heads of the Government and Dignitaries. Prominent among them were the following
King:
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
Presidents:
Dr. Rajendra Prasad (India), Dr. Sarvapalli Radha Krishnan (India), Dr. Zakir Hussain (India), Gen. Zai-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
Prime Ministers:
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru (India), Mr. Chou En Lai (China), Mrs Indira Gandhi (India), Dr. Tanku Abdul Rahaman (Malaysia), Mr. Morarji Desai (India), Dr. P.V. Narshimha Rao (India), Dr. I. K. Gujral (India), Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany), Mr. Shaukat Aziz (Pakistan)
Secretary Generals:
U Thant, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar.
Dignitaries:
Chester Bowels, Swaran Singh, V.K.R.V. Rao, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gaston Egmont Thorn, Ross Daniels, Abul Ahsan, Nihal Rodrigo, Morad Ghaleeb. Distinguished personalities and various Ambassadors to Nepal in recent years including H.E. Mr. Andrey Leonidovich Trofimov (Russia), H.E. Mr. Zheng Xianglin (China), H.E. Dr. Andrew Rotely Hall (British), Mr. Ian Martin, Special Representative of UN Secretary General, Dr. Nicole Toepperwien, Swiss Expert.
Anniversary function:
Each year the Prime Minister of Nepal addresses the Council at its anniversary function in February.
Location:
The office of the Nepal Council of World Affairs is located at its own building in Harihar Bhawan, Pulchowk on the way to Minister’s Quarters, next to UN House. The office of the Council opens 6 days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in summer, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in winter except Saturday. The office is closed on public holidays.
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