over the last three decades for the rural economies of this region, have been, to some extent, positively influenced by cictab. in this scenario, cictab has become very prominent for us as it conducts various training programs with special focus on cooperatives and rural development by providing a common platform to the agricultural and rural development institutions of its member countries. nepal rastra bank, as a member of cictab, would like to assure the centre that it will continue to support the centre ’ s objective of providing a common platform to the agricultural and rural development institutions of its member countries by imparting comprehensive and top quality training, seminars and workshops. ladies and gentlemen, looking over the program schedule i am happy to note that many topical and interesting issues are covered. i am confident that there will be a most active participation and exchange of ideas from the participants over the next five days, which will contribute positively to their respective institutions development. i also hope that all the participants, especially our foreign guests, will also have time to enjoy both the beauty and the flavor of nepalese culture. thank you very much and my best wishes for the successful conclusion of this program!

regulatory, concentration and reputational. 8. in the case of nepal stakeholders including the nrb and fiu - nepal, have been proactively working to implement the preventive measures of financial crime, so as to investigate and disseminate the cases of money laundering and terrorist financing ( ml / tf ) to law enforcement agencies ( leas ). fiu - nepal received 45, 93, 5817 ttrs'and 887 str's in fy 2017 / 18 and out of the total strs'that has been received ; almost 312 were disseminated to the leas. i hope that fiu - nepal and leas will continue to coordinate to further investigate the cases for prosecution and convictions. i understand that fiu - nepal has already installed the goaml system for strengthening the receiving, reporting and dissemination mechanism of information and reports from commercial banks and is now reporting under the test environment. i am confident banks will soon move to live environment of goaml in reporting of str and ttr to fiunepal. 9. hence, leadership of government of nepal and joint and coordinate efforts among the regulators, bfis, leas, fiu, civil society and support agencies such as isp, telecommunication companies, vendors, etc. including with the public private partnership can play an important role to control the financial crime and help to maintain the financial stability in country. ladies and gentlemen, 10. at last, but not least, i would convey my best wishes that the conference will be successful and reach a concrete conclusion about the implementation of robust mechanism of aml compliance. in addition to this, i believe that, this program will able to help improve your knowledge on the risks associated with of ml / tf. it will also help to further continue discussions on plan of action to help prepare for the upcoming mutual evaluation scheduled in 2020. 11. with this note, let me close my remarks by congratulating and thank you all for your gracious presence and attention. thank you.