{"id":33,"date":"2026-09-16T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:09:34","slug":"nepals-absence-from-brics-invitation-is-a-diplomatic-failure-balawati-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Nepal\u2019s Absence from BRICS Invitation Is a Diplomatic Failure : Balawati Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Nepali Communist Party lawmaker Balawati Sharma has described Nepal\u2019s failure to participate in a BRICS-related invitation as a diplomatic failure of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the House of Representatives meeting on Wednesday, Sharma questioned the government\u2019s foreign policy and diplomatic role, saying Nepal should have made use of an invitation from a neighboring country. She demanded that the government explain why Nepal could not participate in the BRICS-related event.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma recalled that then-Prime Minister \u2018Prachanda\u2019 had participated in a BRICS-related program in 2016, where discussions were held on trilateral partnership and development. She questioned why Nepal was unable to maintain such engagement at present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Nepal miss the BRICS invitation from its neighbor? Isn\u2019t this a failure of the government\u2019s foreign policy and diplomacy?\u201d she questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma urged the government to strengthen Nepal\u2019s presence in international forums and give greater priority to diplomatic engagement with neighboring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Nepali Communist Party lawmaker Balawati Sharma has described Nepal\u2019s failure to participate in a BRICS-related invitation as a diplomatic failure of the government. Speaking at the House of Representatives meeting on Wednesday, Sharma questioned the government\u2019s foreign policy and diplomatic role, saying Nepal should have made use of an invitation from a neighboring country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/balawati-sharma-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.samatakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}