Chief of the UN Section at the Ministry, Dhital has been allocated the additional responsibility of the spokesman and Chief of the South Asia Division, Pokharel the additional responsibility of Chief of Protocol. [break]
The Council of Ministers recently promoted Senior Joint Secretary and spokesman Arjun Bahadur Thapa to the post of Secretary after Foreign Secretary Durga Prasad Bhattarai was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations.
Joint Secretary Dhital has been appointed in place of Thapa while the post of Chief of Protocol was lying vacant following Chief of Protocol Niranjanman Singh Basnyat´s appointment to the post of Nepal´s Ambassador to Malaysia.
Newly-appointed Foreign Ministry spokesman Dhital informed journalists about the new appointments at the regular news conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.
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