US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the latter’s residence in Baluwatar on Monday. US Ambassador to Nepal Dean R Thompson was also in the Nuland’s team. According to a Baluwatar source, the meeting discussed Nepal-US relations, bilateral cooperation and mutual interests.

Nuland arrived in Kathmandu on a two-day visit to Nepal on Sunday evening.

ALSO READ: US engagement in Nepal The US State Department said that she will visit India, Sri Lanka and Qatar after Nepal. She is scheduled to meet Deputy Prime Minister and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Rajendra Lingden and Foreign Minister Bimala Rai, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal today itself, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. They will also discuss the culture of Nepal among other issues. It has been learnt that the team of Nuland will also visit the cultural heritage sites in Patan of Lalitpur. This is the first high-level visit of a foreign official since the formation of a new government under Pushpa Kamal Dahal in December last year.