The parliamentary Hearing Committee has approved the names of proposed ambassadors for 16 countries.
The committee meeting on Thursday (September 19) consented to the names, through a majority.
However, the committee did not provide its consent to Ram Krishna Bhattarai, proposed ambassador nominee to Sri Lanka, citing unavailability of necessary documents, committee member Mahesh Bartaula told RSS, the state-owned news agency.
Among the committee members, Dolprasad Aryal and Prakash Adhikari expressed their dissent over names of Kapilman Shrestha, Dhana Prasad Pandit and Netra Prasad Timsina proposed as ambassadors to South Africa, Israel and Malaysia, respectively.
They also objected to the nomination of Dr Shankar Sharma to continue as the Ambassador for India.
The government had recommended Lokdarshan Regmi as Nepali Ambassador to the US, Chandra Ghimire for Britain, Sumnima Tuladhar for Denmark, Dr Shivmaya Tumbahangfe for South Korea, Janga Bahadur Chauhan for Russia and Netra Prasad Timalsina for Malaysia.
Similarly, Krishna Prasad Oli, Dhana Prasad Pandit, Shaila Rupakheti, Ramesh Chandra Poudel, Prakashmani Poudel, Rita Dhital, Naresh Bikram Dhakal and Sanil Nepal were recommended for China, Israel, Germany, Qatar, Portugal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Spain, respectively.
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