The Maoist prime minister of Nepal, the world's newest republic, left on Saturday for the United States where he was due to meet President George W Bush and address the United Nations.
Prime Minister Prachanda is expected to meet Bush despite the former rebel Maoists remaining on the US list of terrorist organisations, a foreign ministry official said.
"We have received a formal invitation to attend a dinner hosted by President Bush," a foreign ministry official said, adding Prachanda would reach New York on Monday.
Prachanda was a wanted guerrilla in the impoverished Himalayan nation until a 2006 peace deal that paved the way for his party to win polls earlier this year.
"The international community needs to change their perspective about Nepal," said the prime minister, whose nom-de-guerre means "the fierce one," before he left.
"I am taking a message of a new republican Nepal to the UN general assembly."
Prime Minister Prachanda is expected to meet Bush despite the former rebel Maoists remaining on the US list of terrorist organisations, a foreign ministry official said.
"We have received a formal invitation to attend a dinner hosted by President Bush," a foreign ministry official said, adding Prachanda would reach New York on Monday.
Prachanda was a wanted guerrilla in the impoverished Himalayan nation until a 2006 peace deal that paved the way for his party to win polls earlier this year.
"The international community needs to change their perspective about Nepal," said the prime minister, whose nom-de-guerre means "the fierce one," before he left.
"I am taking a message of a new republican Nepal to the UN general assembly."
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