Aug 8, 2007

New US envoy Powell arrives

The newly appointed US ambassador to Nepal, Nancy J Powell arrived in Kathmandu on Monday afternoon.

Powell is replacing former ambassador James F Moriaty who left Nepal in July after serving three years in Nepal.

According to reports, Powell is scheduled to present her credentials to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Thursday.

Powell has been ambassador to Pakistan, Ghana and Uganda. Before her appointment as envoy to Nepal, Powell worked as National Intelligence Officer for South Asia at the National Intelligence Council.

Nancy J Powell, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, was confirmed by the US Senate on June 28, 2007 to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Nepal.

Powell, born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, had joined the Foreign Service in 1977. She has also studied French, Nepali, and Urdu.

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