Oli condemns government for allowing US Under Secretary Zeya to visit Tibetan refugee camp

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli expressed his dissatisfaction for allowing  Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights and US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya to visit to Tibetan refugee camp in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur.

Speaking at the Parliament meeting held at the Parliament building on Wednesday, the former prime minister objected to the US Under Secretary of State's visit to the refugee camp in coordination with the state against the established values of the foreign policy.

"It is highly objectionable to allow the US Under Secretary of State to visit the Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal," lawmaker Bhim Rawal said as Oli saying.

According to party Chief Whip Bishal Bhattarai, Oli accused the government of trying to deviate from one-China policy.

In the meeting, Rawal demanded that a protest proposal should be endorsed against the US Under Secretary of State's meeting with Tibetan refugee leaders.

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Rawal said that the party Chairman will raise the issue in the Parliament meeting tomorrow.

UML lawmaker Deepak Prakash Bhatta said that Oli expressed his dissatisfaction after the US Under Secretary of State was taken to the refugee camp with escorting by embracing the imbalanced foreign policy.

Earlier, some political leaders, ex-diplomats, and bureaucrats criticized the government for allowing her to see Tibetan refugees, saying that it violated Nepal’s One-China policy.

On May 21, US Under-Secretary of State for Civilian Security Zeya visited the Tibetan refugee camp in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur. Later that day she also went to Kathmandu’s Boudha, home to a large number of Tibetan refugees.