Deadlock & Diplomacy
NEPAL's diplomatic skill and maneuver that played a crucial
role in resolving the deadlock suddenly cropped up in the Asian Conference of the World
Summit on Information Society in Tokyo, Japan and has been well received and hailed by the
participating Asian nations. The controversy concerning the participation of Taiwanese
delegation had delayed the start of the Tokyo conclave. Minister for Information and
Communications Ramesh Nath Pandey, leading the Nepalese delegation in the conference, took
the tough stance and played the lead role in resolving the deadlock. Minister Pandey,
reiterating Nepal's one-China policy, ruled out the participation of Taiwanese delegation,
which was immediately followed by India and supported by all other participating Asian
nations. Nepal has always regarded Taiwan as an integral part of People's Republic of
China, which has remained unchanged ever since diplomatic relations between Nepal and
China were established. Nepal has always taken a firm stance in several international
issues and has earned special place and recognition in the international forum. Despite
being small in size and population, Nepal has always played a very important role in every
international forum in resolving crisis and problems. This diplomatic acumen Nepal has
demonstrated has helped in enhancing its image in the international community. Minister
Pandey, who is also one of the skillful personalities of Nepal in the foreign policy front
and international relations, has further enhanced Nepal's diplomatic knack in mediating
and resolving conflict and crisis. Apart from playing a lead and crucial role in ending
the deadlock in the Tokyo conference on Information Technology, Minister Pandey clearly
and loudly raised the issue and problems being faced by many poor and least developed
countries of Asia especially in the field of information and communication. He has rightly
raised the issue of narrowing the digital gap currently facing the world. This is not only
the issue of Nepal but of many other countries in the world. Some nations, especially
developed ones, have achieved tremendous progress in the field of information technology
and taken maximum advantage from the revolution in IT sector for their social and economic
development. At the same time the information and communication technology is still a
luxurious and unaffordable commodity for the people of some Third World countries, which
are poor and underdeveloped. As observed by Minister Pandey, the international forum like
the one in Tokyo needs to pay a serious attention to this issue and act accordingly to end
the digital gap and provide easy and affordable access to IT facilities for all people.
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