US Ambassador hosts ceremony coinciding with US presidential election

KATHMANDU: US Ambassador to Nepal Alaina B Teplitz hosted a ceremony at her official residence today coinciding with the ongoing US presidential election in the United States of America.

On the occasion, she said election is the most beautiful aspect of democracy and the US has been witnessing the handover of state power through peaceful means for the last 200 years.

Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar, members of the Council of Ministers, lawmakers, various political leaders, chiefs and officials of diplomatic missions here, heads of the constitutional bodies, representatives of the UN bodies, business community and senior journalists were invited to the ceremony.

On the occasion, they took part in the mock election based on the US electoral system.