Speaker Aryal meets Australian counterpart Dick

KATHMANDU: Speaker Dol Prasad (DP) Aryal has met his Australian counterpart, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Milton Dick.

Aryal, who is in Tanzania, to attend the 153rd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), met Dick on Tuesday and discussed various issues, including Nepal-Australia relations and parliamentary cooperation, according to Aryal’s secretariat.

During the meeting, Aryal said that relations between Nepal and Australia, established in 1960, have been continuously strengthened on the basis of friendship, mutual respect and shared democratic values.