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Kathmandu, 10 October: Newly appointed foreign secretary Bharatraj Poudel has assumed office on Friday. The cabinet meeting held on Thursday had assigned Foreign Ministry’s joint secretary Poudel to the post of the foreign secretary. Poudel has succeeded Shankardas Bairagi, who has been promoted to the post of chief secretary of the Nepal government.
Poudel is the 24th foreign secretary of the Nepal Government. Earlier to his promotion, Poudel was the senior-most joint secretary and spokesman in the Foreign Ministry. From 2012 to 2016, he had served as the ambassador to Pakistan. Earlier to his ambassadorial assignment, Poudel was the chief of the South Asia desk.

People’s News Monitoring Service