Government Recommends New Ambassadors for Eight Countries

The government has recommended Nepalese ambassadors for eight countries as part of a power-sharing deal among the ruling parties. This decision was made during a cabinet meeting held on Friday.

-India: Former Chief Secretary Lokdarshan Regmi has been recommended.
-USA: Former Secretary Chandra Ghimire has been recommended.
-South Korea: Human rights activist Sushil Pyakurel has been recommended.
-Denmark: Sumnima Tuladhar has been recommended.
-Malaysia: Dr. Netra Prasad Timilsina has been recommended.
-UK: Bijan Pant has been recommended.
-Saudi Arabia: Abu Sufyan Khan Muslim has been recommended.
-Spain: Pushpa Raj Rajkarnikar has been recommended.

Regmi, Ghimire, Pyakurel, Tuladhar, and Timilsina have been appointed under the UML quota. Panta, formerly associated with the Nepali Congress (NC), was appointed from the Maoist Center quota. Rajkarnikar and Khan were appointed by the Federal Socialist Party (FSP) led by Ashok Rai.

It is notable that except for Regmi and Ghimire, the other appointees from the UML quota come from an NGO background.

On Jestha 24, the government recalled ambassadors from 11 countries including India and the US. The ambassadors to the United Kingdom, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Malaysia, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, and Israel were also recalled. These ambassadors had been appointed during the previous coalition government of the Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Center).