Eleven Asian nations including Nepal will participate in the ministerial-level meeting in Pasay on April 17-19. Nepal will take part in the meeting and explore opportunities for cooperation with countries that send migrant workers abroad, said spokesperson at Ministry of Labour and Transport Management Buddhi Khadka. 

 

“Labour Minister MS Thapa will participate in the meeting,” he said, adding that the country will put forward the issue of labour contract between sending and receiving countries as its major agenda. 

 

The meeting is also known as Abu Dhabi Dialogue because the United Arab Emirates has been supporting it since 2008. 

 

The participants will discuss on safe migration, salary and benefits as receiving countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Singapore will participate as observers. 

 

The meeting will focus on four key partnership areas involving migration –– knowledge sharing on market trends, skills profiles, workers and remittance policies and flows, and their relationship to development; and building capacity for effective matching of labour supply and demand. 

 

Likewise, preventing illegal recruitment and promoting welfare and protection measures; and developing a framework for a comprehensive approach to managing the entire cycle 

 

of temporary contractual work that fosters the mutual interest of countries of origin and destination are also on the cards.