Jai Pratap Rana has been appointed Royal Nepalese ambassador to the United States of America, a diplomatic source said.
The post was vacant after the recall of Damodar Gautam nearly one year ago. Rana is member secretary of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation and former chief of the Nepalese mission to the United Nations.
Foreign Secretary Narayan Shumshere Thapa has been appointed Royal Nepalese Ambassador to Belgium, published reports said quoting sources close to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Thapa retires in December; he is a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia.