Nepal's prime minister, Balen Shah, used his first address to the UN General Assembly to call a recent flash flood in his country a warning to the world, according to Al Jazeera. The remarks came during his debut at the annual gathering of world leaders, where he criticized the state of the global order.
Shah pressed the case that climate-driven disasters cross borders regardless of politics, telling the assembly that glaciers and floods do not travel with visas, The Times of India reported. He used that point to urge India and China to join a proposed Himalayan warning network, according to the same outlet.
In his speech, Shah also directed attention to India and Pakistan, asking them to account for what NDTV described as a broken global order. The Guardian reported that he scolded fellow leaders over climate change while describing the flood as a warning to the world.
ThePrint, in its coverage, framed the address as a sharp debut for a leader whose country, it said, is fighting a crisis it did not cause. The flood itself has been described across the outlets as devastating, though the available reporting does not include casualty figures or a specific date for the disaster.
What to watch next is whether India and China respond to the call for a joint Himalayan warning system, and whether Shah's UN remarks translate into regional cooperation on glacier and flood monitoring.
