British Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Member of Parliament for East Devon Hugo Swire has expressed his condolences on the demise of former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala.

In his twitter post, he said he fondly remembers the former prime minister of Nepal. "My thoughts are with his family & the Nepali people," he wrote in his tweet with a file photo taken during a meeting with Koirala.