The cabinet meeting Monday decided to appoint Gyan Chandra Acharya joint secretary at the Foreign Ministry as Nepal’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
Similarly, Pushkar Rajbahndari, also serving as senior Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is likely to be appointed ambassador to Pakistan.
The meeting decided to appoint Arjun Thapa, Joint Secretary at the Ministry as the deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Likewise according to official sources Bhagirath Basnet, chief of the protocol division will probably be appointed ambassador to Bangaldesh.