 Honorable Heads of States and Heads of Governments, President of the Human Rights Council, Mr. High Commissioner, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I extend one greetings to you all from Nepal, the Land of Buddha, the Apostle of Peace, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I take this opportunity to reiterate Nepal's total and unequivocal commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and determination for socio-economic advancement. Nepal is a party to all major international human rights instruments that include seven of the nine core instruments. The Constitution of Nepal embraces the values and principles of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration. The Constitution of Nepal guarantees the right to freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of peaceful assembly, right to form unions and associations, the right to form political parties as fundamental rights. These rights are irrevocable even during the state of emergency. The Constitution also ensures economic, social and cultural rights. As per the Constitution, all citizens shall be equal before law and every person gets the equal protection of law. Nepal will make all our efforts to transform the fundamental rights of the Constitution into practice so that human rights will be ensured. I am pleased to share that we have enacted laws for the implementation of these rights. Further, the Constitution ensures remedy from the competent and independent judiciary against violation of fundamental rights. We have vibrant and active civil society working together with the government for the promotion and protection of human rights. On this landmark occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Nepal pledged to become a party to the freedom of association and protection of the right to organize convention 1948. I allow convention number 87. I wish this event all success. I thank you.