| After 22 Years: So Much Changed for Nepal & Carter
After about 22 years, Jimmy Carter is in Nepal. The last time he visited also as a former US president. His 13-day soujourn in October 1985 with Rosalynn took him to the Everest base camp and he wrote a chapter in one of his books about that trip and his meeting with then King Birendra.
This time Carter is on a 3-day visit of a different type. These are no time for vacationing in Nepal. The Nobel-laureate is on a peace mission, providing the much-needed international credibilty to the election process in Nepal. He won't meet the new king, but plans to shake hands with PM Girija Koirala and Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal.