KATHMANDU: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has underlined the need for cooperation and solidarity among the South Asian countries to tackle challenges of disaster management and climate change.

He pointed out the problems being experienced commonly by the entire world, but not a local level or a country while inaugurating the South Asian Conference on ‘role of the local level in disaster management, reconstruction, energy and climate change’ that started today here.

Referring to the issues as something connecting with nation development, he pointed out a significant role of the local level in dealing with challenges that may surface in the way to resolve them.