Posted by: Chatmandude July 14, 2006
Royals and Royalists behaving badly
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?        
Here are some more royalists behaving badly. Fresh news. Three Recalled Envoys Vanish Into Thin Air The Himalayan Times Online Kathmandu, July 14: Three Nepali ambassadors who were recalled by the government have not yet come in contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The missing ambassadors are Prajwol Shumsher Rana who was serving in France, Rameshananda Vaidhya in Japan and Karna Dhoj Adhikary in India. The government recalled these ambassadors along with nine others, who were appointed by the previous Royal regime. "The ambassadors from Paris, Tokyo and New Delhi have not come in contact with the ministry, but we know they have left the respective embassies," confirmed MoFA spokesperson, Yadav Khanal. He added that there were vacancies for ambassadors in some 13 countries including Russia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Japan, India and China. Minister of Foreign Affairs, KP Oli has been saying time and again that the government will soon send envoys in those embassies and also take action against those who were recalled but did not return. However, officials say that there is no provision to take such action against those ambassadors. According to a provision stipulated in the new Regulation of the House of Representatives, the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee will have to approve the proposed ambassadorial candidates. Meanwhile, the special committee held its first meeting on Thursday and formed a three-member team to regularise the committee's working procedure. The four-man panel, including Pashupati Chaulagain, Baldev Sharma Majhghaiya and Dila Ram Acharya, will study the draft to be prepared by the Parliament Secretariat. The committee headed by MP Asta Laxmi Shakya will also have the responsibility to approve the names of judges selected for the Supreme Court, chiefs of constitutional bodies like Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the Public Service Commission and the Election Commission. Since the special committee is a new practice in Nepal, the United States, where such parliamentary committees exist, has assured the special committee of helping it understand the US model. "We have found the US embassy keen to help us understand their model of Special Committee," Shakya, chairperson of the special committee said.
Read Full Discussion Thread for this article