The ambassador's recommendation will be changed without a parliamentary hearing

The government led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal decided on May 24 to recall the ambassadors of 11 countries, including India and America, without completing their tenure, and on June 7, it recommended new ambassadors for 8 different countries. The new government is likely to change the ambassadors recommended by the Dahal government and even recall the current ambassadors. According to

sources, the new equation is likely to recall the ambassadors appointed to Australia and Russia from Maoist quotas to China and Sri Lanka and CPN-S.

In addition, Congress may recommend new ambassadors. Now, according to the new equation, with the formation of the government, new names may be recommended for the appointment of ambassadors mainly to India, America and China. Congress and UML will discuss and decide on the appointment of ambassadors to other countries, including these three, said a diplomatic source.

Dahal government recommended 5 ambassadors from UML, two from Jaspa and one from Maoists. Former Chief Secretary Lokdarshan Regmi for India, former Secretary Chandra Ghimire for America, human rights activist Sushil Pyakurel for South Korea, Sumnima Tuladhar for Denmark, Netra Prasad Timilsina for Malaysia, Bijan Pant for Britain, Abu Sufyan Khan Muslim for Saudi Arabia and Pushparaj Rajakarnikar for Spain have been recommended as ambassadors.

Muslim and Rajkarnikar were recommended from Jaspa and Pant from Maoists while other 5 people were recommended for ambassador from UML quota. Pakurel has declined the ambassadorship. Although the Council of Ministers has finalized the names of ambassadors recommended by the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is collecting all their documents. After that, the name will be sent to the Council of Ministers for approval, said a Foreign Affairs official.

Prime Minister Dahal did not ask the concerned Ministry of Foreign Affairs both times when returning the ambassador and recommending a new one. Both times Prime Minister Dahal decided on a vertical proposal instead of taking the proposal through Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Narayankaji Shrestha. Shrestha expressed his displeasure in the Council of Ministers for neglecting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the very beginning, the collection of details was started only after the Council of Ministers decided that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should look at the details of the concerned persons and recommend them for the appointment of ambassadors. Now ambassadors to Israel, Qatar and Portugal have yet to be recommended. According to the quota, the RSVP, which has received the quota of two ambassadors, has not yet decided on the name. Even though RSVP has publicly requested applications for ambassadors, now the new equation has made it difficult to proceed with the process.

The names of 8 ambassadors recommended by the government have to be sent to the federal parliament for parliamentary hearings. "Until now, no letter has arrived from the government for the parliamentary hearing of the ambassadors," said Ekraj Giri, the spokesperson and joint secretary of the federal parliament. Due to the new equation, there is an increased possibility that those recommended for ambassadorship will be returned without a parliamentary hearing. This is not the first time that ambassadorial nominees have been withdrawn without a parliamentary hearing. In the first week of July 2078, the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government returned the recommendations to the nine ambassadors appointed by the previous Oli government without a parliamentary hearing.

After the parliamentary hearing is completed, it is sent to the concerned country for agrimo (acceptance) and after the agrimo arrives, the ambassador is appointed. Sanil Nepal, who was appointed ambassador to Portugal for the first time in Nepal's history, was recalled by the Dahal government on May 24 before he could go to work. He was appointed ambassador by the Dahal government on January 26 and was recalled after the change of alliance on February 21.

Prime Minister Dahal has not yet recalled ambassadors who were appointed from the Maoist quota and who performed poorly. Bishnupukar Shrestha in China and Vasudev Mishra in Sri Lanka are ambassadors from Maoist quota. Milan Tuladhar to Russia and Kailash Pokharel to Australia are the ambassadors from S. According to sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this ambassador is currently the weakest performing diplomatic mission of Nepal abroad. The term of ambassador is 4 years.

Nepal currently has 30 embassies and 3 permanent missions to the United Nations. Similarly, there are 7 Consulates General. According to the guidelines for appointing ambassadors, 50 percent of the diplomatic service and 50 percent of the political side are the criteria for appointing ambassadors by the government.