The Parliamentary Hearing Committee has started the hearing process on six ambassadors recommended by the government for different countries.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on July 11 recommended six joint secretaries of the Foreign Ministry as ambassadors.
As per the decision, Joint Secretary Lok Bahadur Thapa has been recommended as the ambassador to the Permanent Mission of the United Nations in New York, Ram Prasad Subedi as the ambassador to the Permanent Mission of the United Nations in Geneva, and Sudheer Bhattarai as the ambassador to France.
Similarly, Joint Secretary Dhan Bahadur Oli has been recommended as the ambassador to Thailand, Tej Bahadur Chhetri as the ambassador to the UAE, and Ghana Shyam Lamsal has been recommended as the ambassador to Kuwait.
The PAC had issued a 10-day notice seeking complaints, if any, against the proposed ambassadors, said Ekram Giri, the secretary of the Committee.
The hearing process of the ambassadors of various countries recommended by the government of Nepal has started from today.
A constitutional provision has it that ambassadors recommended by the Council of Ministers are appointed by the President following approval by the Parliamentary Hearing Committee.
