Mohan Krishna Shrestha has enjoyed an outstanding career in the Nepali diplomatic service, rising eventually to the post of Nepali Ambassador to France. In the course of his life, he has visited no fewer than seventy-one of the world's countries, many of them several times. He has had the opportunity to meet other leading diplomats from around the world, and to participate in some of the most important conferences and conventions of the last thirty years of world history. This book offers fascinating insights into the arcane world of diplomatic negotiation and protocol, as well as constituting an important source for historians of Nepali diplomacy. It will interest all those concerned with Nepal, as well as anyone wanting better to understand how international co-operation and negotiations have worked in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.