Kathmandu : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has emphasized on the need to transform the country by linking its diverse culture and heritage into national unity.
Addressing the closing ceremony of the three-day Himawatkhanda Art-Literature-Culture Conference, 2081, organized by the Madan Bhandari Art-Literature Foundation here today, Prime Minister Oli, who is also the chief patron of the foundation, said that he found the Himawatkhanda conference to be a meeting of our culture, art, literature, history and civilization.
Sharing the extraordinary significance of the fact that civilization, knowledge, yoga, philosophy and culture originated from the Himawatkhanda, he said we have to make a common resolve to preserve and promote the identity of this land with such a proud story. “We have a history of 6,000 years of human civilization. Hence, today’s humanity must protect those ancient assets as patent rights.”
Prime Minister Oli also read out a poem that was composed at the event venue itself, with a focus on the pride of the Himawatkhanda and the determination of the Nepali people to advance the federal democratic republic.
Selected poets recited poems in the closing session of the conference that was attended by about 500 artists from Nepal and abroad. It ended with a 17-point Kathmandu Declaration.
