The government has finished conducting the parliamentary hearing of the three out of six ambassadorial nominees recommend for various countries and permanent missions of Nepal in the United Nations.
The hearing of Lok Bahadur Thapa, who is recommended for the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations in New York, Ram Prasad Subedi to the United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland) and Nepali Ambassador to France Sudhir Bhattarai has been over.
A PHC committee meeting has been scheduled for Thursday to conduct hearing of remaining Tej Bahadur Chhetri, who is recommended as Nepali Ambassador to United Arab Emirates, Ghanashyam Lamsal (Kuwait), and Dhan Bahadur Oli (Thailand).
All the six ambassadors recommended by the Council of Ministers are carrier diplomats who have served for a long time in the foreign services.
Of them, Thapa, who faced the parliamentary hearing on Wednesday, is the former Ambassador to Belgium and European Union. Thapa is recommended as the Permanent Representative of Nepal to United Missions in New York.
Currently, Joint Secretary Thapa is the incumbent Division Chief of the North-East Asia under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that looks after China, Japan and South Korea.
Similarly, Joint Secretary Subedi, who is recommended for the United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland) is the incumbent Division Chief of South Asia under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that looks after India and Pakistan.
Similarly, Joint Secretary Bhattarai, who is recommended as Ambassador to France, is the incumbent Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the parliamentary hearing held today, proposed ambassadors -- Thapa, Subedi and Bhattarai -- presented their respective work-plans.
PHC members were satisfied by the work-plans presented by them.
Prior to the hearing of the recommended ambassadors, the PHC held a meeting with Foreign Minister NP Saud.
The Committee summoned a meeting with Minister Saud after lawmakers questioned over the inclusiveness in the ambassadorial appointments.
Speaking at the meeting NP Saud claimed that the appointments of ambassadors is inclusive based on the entire number of ambassadorial appointments even though the recommendation this time does not look so inclusive.
