Kathmandu, Sept. 20 -- Director General of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Dr Pema Gyamtsho has laid emphasis on building trust and sharing scientific knowledge and evidence among countries in the region, stressing that rivers cross national boundaries and connect people.

"This is very important. Rivers cross national boundaries and rivers connect us. But very often, we do not recognise the connectivity that rivers bring. Rivers should be uniting us, not dividing us," he told UNB in an interview at the ICIMOD headquarters in Kathmandu recently.

Dr Pema, the first Director General from the region that ICIMOD serves since its establishment in 1983, said the first step is to build trust and the next st...