The Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee has endorsed Udaya Raj Pandey as Nepal’s new Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Based on the recent proposal of the Council of Ministers, the House committee endorsed Pandey’s appointment, Thursday.

The diplomatic post had been lying vacant from the time the government decided to recall its previous ambassador to Saudi Arabia Hamid Ansari in January alleging him of illegally amassing the insurance money issued to compensate the Nepali migrant workers who died in Saudi Arabia during the course of their work.

The government is yet to send a formal letter of Pandey’s appointment, as President Ram Baran Yadav needs to formalise this before dispatching the notification abroad. nepalnews.com