US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs Donald Lu is arriving in Nepal on Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he will stay in Nepal only for one day.

His visit to Nepal, at a time when the parties are divided over the issue of implementing the State Partnership Program (SPP), has been taken meaningfully.

The government had directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inform the United States that Nepal will not be a part of the SPP.

But, the Ministry has not informed the United States about the issue yet.

On Wednesday, the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives had directed the government to make Nepal's position clear on the SPP.

In recent times, the ruling and the opposition parties have been debating on the issues of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and SPP.

Six fringe communist parties have announced protests against the MCC and SPP.

Earlier, Lu, who visited Nepal on November 17, 2021, had held separate meetings with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka among other leaders.