US Ambassador DeLisi arrives
Kathmandu. 15 April: Scott H. DeLisi, the new U.S. Ambassador, arrived in Kathmandu Thursday. US embassy said.
“I am very happy to be here. I look forward to building on the long-standing friendship between our two countries and strengthening the bonds of goodwill between our two peoples,” he said in an arrival statement
Ambassador DeLisi is scheduled to present his credentials Sunday.
He succeeds Nancy J. Powell, who was promoted in the State Department.
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“ The Nepali Congress struggle for relevance has become particularly heartening in the aftermath of the Girija Prasad Koirala’s death, Look at the senior most leader of the party affirmed the other day. Forget that Krishna Prasad Bhattarai advocates the restoration of the monarchy and the 1990 constitution. He isn’t even a member of the party.”

(Maila Baje, People’s review, 15 Aug.)

“.. .Gyanendra Shah wasn’t about to acquiesce in the retention of a monarchy wherein others got to choose who sat on the throne. Instead. he chose to redefine the debate on whether the monarchy needed Nepal more or vice versa.”

(Maila Baje, People’s Review, 15Aug.)
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