Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi departed Kathmandu Sunday evening after serving more than two years as President Obama’s envoy to Nepal.
Ambassador DeLisi’s next assignment will be as the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu.
During his official tenure in Nepal, DeLisi became of part of various program related to the Bhutanese refugees and even facilitated resettlement of over 30,000 exiles from Nepal to his country, the United States of America.
He even paid a low-profiled visit to Bhutan last year in August and posted 93 photographs, including the one with Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley, in his Facebook page.
In one of the resettlement related programs organized last year in Kathmandu-based IOM premises, he had said, “The US is proud to welcome you all to our country. As the grand-son of immigrant myself, I know you continue the long tradition of immigration and I know you will make our country better. Many Americans have and will continue to work to make you enter into the US as smoothly as possible.”
Before leaving Nepal, Ambassador DeLisi posted a message on his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Scott.H.DeLisi), thanking his more than 15,000 Facebook friends.
“This evening (Sunday) I leave for the United States and ultimately to Uganda. Let me just offer a final farewell and wish all my Nepali friends the best for the future. To my Ugandan friends I look forward to my arrival in the Pearl of Africa.”
President Obama has named Ambassador Peter Bodde to be Ambassador DeLisi’s successor in Nepal, pending confirmation by the United States Senate, as required by the U.S. Constitution, according to the U.S. embassy in Kathmandu.
File video of December 13, 2010
