Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan has said if the ambassadorial positions that remains vacant from the past 15 months are not filled up immediately, then the process might be delayed further after the election code-of-conduct comes into effect. She said that the eight parties should immediately discuss the matter to avoid this scenario.

“There has already been too much delay in appointing ambassadors,” Minister Pradhan told Kantipur Daily.

She said that since the said code-of-conduct comes into effect three months before the elections and during that period all new appointments, transfers and promotions are halted, there is possibility that the process of appointing ambassadors might get delayed by 5 more months.