KATHMANDU: Four ministers from the interim government are scheduled to travel abroad within the next six weeks for official engagements.

Finance Minister Rameshore Khanal will leave for the United States on Friday to attend the joint annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.

He will be accompanied by Finance Secretary Ghan Shyam Upadhyay and Nepal Rastra Bank Governor Biswo Nath Poudel.

Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Kulman Ghising is set to visit New Delhi from October 27 to 30 to participate in the 8th Assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA).

Industry, Commerce and Supplies Minister Anil Kumar Sinha will attend the 16th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva from October 20 to 22.

Similarly, Agriculture and Livestock Development Minister Dr. Madan Prasad Pariyar will travel to Lima, Peru, to take part in the high-level meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture on November 26–27.

The Cabinet has approved all four visits. The trips by Sinha and Pariyar were endorsed at the Cabinet meeting held on October 9, while the visits of Khanal and Ghising had been approved earlier.