Nepal's PM unaware of third country resettlement
Biratnagar, August 17: Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Thursday said he was unaware about a government decision to resettle some exiled Bhutanese in third country.
Talking to a delegation of political leaders in exile including Bala Ram Poudel, president of Bhutan People's Party at his residence in Biratnagar in Morang district PM Koirala said he would study the development in detail once he returns to the capital, Kathmandu.
The delegation had expressed their dissatisfaction over the UNHCR plan to send some 16 exiled Bhutanese to the US and Canada.
The UNHCR decision had drawn extreme criticism from the Bhutanese community, leadership in particular.
During her visit to Nepal in July, the UN Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, had stated that the UN agency had reached an agreement with the foreign ministry of Nepal to send 16 most vulnerable exiled Bhutanese to third country in the first phase. Bhutan News Service