KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 13
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (for the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau, Afreen Akhter, arrived in Kathmandu today.
The visit of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau comes two weeks after Victoria Nuland's and three days after Samantha Power's visit.
She is scheduled to meet with Nepali partners at ICI- MOD and Urja Nepal, as well as Nepali Army and government officials to discuss climate change, clean energy, humanitarian assistance and disaster response, and advancing democracy, human rights, and mutual economic prosperity, the US embassy in Kathmandu wrote on its Facebook page.
Afreen Akhter oversees South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) for Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and the Maldives, as well as the Office of Security and Transnational Affairs, according to US Department of State. She most recently served as senior adviser to SCA Assistant Secretary Don Lu. Akhter's is the third visit by top US officials to Nepal in less than two weeks. USAID Administrator Samantha Power was in Kathmandu on February 7 for a two-day visit. Earlier, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, was here on January 31.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 14, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
