Explain Nepal's role in SAARC, with a critical note on the association's current state.

The admission (14 December 1955): the mid-1950s' package admission (the logjam of the Cold-War vetoes broken — sixteen states entering together, Nepal among them) — the newly- opened Nepal's international coming-of-age; the membership as the sovereignty's certificate and the development's door. The constitutional anchoring (the exam's Nepali spine): Article 5 (the national interest), Article 50(4) (the international-relations directive: sovereign equality, the protection of sovereignty-independence-territorial integrity, the national interest and prestige) and Article 51(13) (the state policies: the independent foreign policy grounded in the UNCharter, non-alignment and Panchsheel, the equality-and-mutual-interest treaty principle, and the review of past unequal treaties) — the Foreign Policy of Nepal 2077's own foundations. Thepractice: the UN's development partnership (the resident-system era — the UN country team, the SDG framework), the peace-era role (the peace-process support, UNMIN's 2007–2011 monitoring of the arms-and-armies: the unique direct political engagement), and the treaty-body record (the principal human-rights instruments' ratifications — the reporting dialogues; the UPR's cycles).5.1.1 Nepal and Peacekeeping MissionThe blue-helmet vocation: since 1958 (the first observers) — one of the most consistent contributors in UN history: the Nepal Army, Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force's deployments across the continents' missions (the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Lebanon, Mali's history, the Middle East's observers — the long list), the rise to the world's top ranks of troop-and-police contributors…