INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, JANUARY 27The United States Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
Victoria Nuland is arriving in Nepal on January 29 on a two-day visit.
NC to hold PP election tomorrow
Two-day conference kicks-off in St
Xavier's College
During her visit, Undersecretary
Huland would hold high-level political meetings and also observe some cultural heritage sites of the country.
She was sworn
in as the undersecretary of State for Political Affairs in April 2021
Before this, she was senior counsellor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in
Washington, DC.She was also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, distinguished practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale
University, and a member of the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy.A US diplomat for 33 years, Ambassador Nuland served as
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from September 2013 until January 2017 under President Obama and Secretary
She was State Department Spokesperson during Secretary Hillary Clinton's tenure, and US Ambassador to NATO during President George W Bush's
second term, 2005-2008.Nuland served as Special Envoy and chief negotiator on the Treaty on Conventional Arms Control in Europe from
2010-2011, and as deputy national security advisor to vice-president Cheney from 2003-2005.In addition to two tours at NATO in Brussels, she
has served overseas in Russia, China and Mongolia, and in various assignments at the State Department in Washington.A version of this
article appears in the print on January 28, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
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