Nepal Highlights

The newly appointed US ambassador to Nepal Scott H DeLisi has arrived in Kathmandu last week. He was nominated as Nepal envoy in November 2009 and approved by the US Senate in March 2010. There was no US ambassador to Nepal for almost eight months after erstwhile ambassador Nancy J Powell moved to Washington.

US President Barack Obama has named a former vice-counsel in US embassy in India and the chief of the embassy's political section in Sri Lanka as the new ambassador to Nepal. Scott H DeLisi, a career diplomat with 28 years experience in foreign affairs, will become the US ambassador to Nepal if the senate approves President Obama's nomination.