Kathmandu, May 1 -- Prime Minister Balendra Shah will not undertake any foreign trips for at least one year. Speaking in the Fireside interview show on Kantipur Television, newly-appointed general secretary of the ruling Rastriya Swantantra Party (RSP), Bhoop Dev Shah, revealed that the prime minister will not go on any foreign trips for at least a year.

"He will obviously go on foreign trips. But first, he will focus on the issues of the general population and development," he said. "He will not go on any foreign trips for at least one year as per our discussion."

Since the restoration of multiparty democracy in 1990, Nepali prime ministers have been known to move quickly when it comes to foreign trips. The quickest such trip came when...