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Kathmandu, September 20: The 16 ambassadorial candidates’ names were approved at the Parliamentary Hearing Committee meeting on September 19.

When one ambassadorial candidate, proposed for the ambassador to Sri Lanka, Ramkrishna Bhattarai, didn’t present his bachelor’s degree certificate, the committee asked him to submit it. The Committee said, that after producing the certificate, his name will be approved.

The committee approved the ambassadorial candidates Lokdarshan Regmi (USA), Chandra Ghimire (Britain), Sumnima Tuladhar (Denmark), Dr Shivmaya Tumbahangfe (South Korea), Janga Bahadur Chauhan (Russia), and Netraprasad Timalsina (Malaysia).     

Accordingly, the Committee approved the names of Krishna Prasad Oli (China), Dhana Prasad Pandit (Israel), Shaila Rupakheti (Germany), Ramesh Chandra Poudel (Qatar), Prakashmani Poudel (Portugal), Rita Dhital (Pakistan), Shankar Sharma (India), Kapilman Shrestha (South Africa) and Naresh Bikram Dhakal (Saudi Arabia).

The candidates will get assignments after receiving agremo from the concerned countries.

Two lawmakers, members of the Parliamentary Hearing Committee, had written a note of dissent while approving the names by the Committee. Lawmakers from the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal (JSP-Nepal) and the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) wrote a note of dissent objecting nomination of four names stating that their nomination was against the constitutional spirit. The MPs had questioned the nominations of Kapil Shrestha, Netra Prasad Timilsina, Dhan Prasad Pandit, and Shankar Prasad Sharma.

People’s News Monitoring Service.