US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs, Donald Lu, arrived in Kathmandu on a two-day visit to Nepal on Thursday.
US Embassy Deputy Head Manuel P. Micaller welcomed Lu at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu who came to Nepal with a three-member team this afternoon.
During this stay in Nepal, he is scheduled to pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
He will hand over the US Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) to Purnaa, a US manufacturing company in Nepal that promotes ethical manufacturing by empowering traditionally marginalized people and survivors of exploitation.
Assistant Secretary Lu will also meet with business, civil society, and government leaders.
The US Embassy, issuing a statement on Thursday, said that Lu is arriving in Nepal for a two-day trip as part of a regularly scheduled visit.
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.
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.
