Businessman, Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia has been appointed as the first honorary Consul of the Republic of Nepal to Uganda, this website has learnt.
The appointment was made by Bidhya Devi Bhandari, the Nepalese president before Sudhir presented his credentials to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
According to sources at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the formal ceremony will take place in the first week of March 2020 in Kampala when His Excellency Ambassador Jhabindra Aeyal Rajdoot.
The move is aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between the two countries.
Nepal now joins a host of many other countries that have opened up consulates in Uganda in the past few years including Gambia, Malaysia and Slovenia among others.
Israel, which was one of the first countries to open an embassy in Uganda a few years ago promised to reopen it after it was closed by then-president Idi Amin and following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, the same was emphasized.
