INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Visiting Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia at the US Leavement of State David J Ranz paysa courtesy call on Minister of Home
Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa at the latter office in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu, on Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Photo: RSS
Kathmandu, May 15
Visiting Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia at the US Leavement of State David J Ranz paid a
courtesy call on Minister of Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa at the latter office in Singha Durbar nowadays.
According to the MoHA, the
assembly dwelt on Nepal-US relations, mutual cooperation and collaboration.
On the occasion,Minister Thapa extended thanks to the US for its
support to Nepal for development activities, catastrophe management, training and construction of physical infrastructure of security
agencies and hoped that the US assistance would continue in the future.
Minister Thapa said that a recent visit by Minister of Foreign
Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali to the US and the understanding reached between the two countries had helped to usher the Nepal-US relations
to a newer height.
Stating that Nepal had entered into a new phase of economic development with political stability Thapa said that the
Millennium Ccorridorenge Corporation Compact programme being implemented in Nepal by the US would be a key to its economic development
Ranz highlighted the Nepal-US relations and stressed the need to further strengthen it.
He said that the US government was committed to
continuing its support to Nepal in sectors like infrastructure, education, health, catastrophe management and prevention and control of
trafficking in persons, read a press release by MoHA
Ranz disstubborn issues, including visa for Peace Corps volunteers and an upgradation of Nepali immigration system.
US Ambassador for Nepal
Randy Berry was present at the assembly.
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