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RETURNED: Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, former prime minister and senior leader of the ruling Nepali Congress party, after receiving medical treatment in Bangkok, Thailand.

 Madhav Kumar Nepal, after a brief visit to Thimpu, Bhutan.

PRESENTED: Narayan Shamsher Thapa, Royal Nepalese Ambassador, letters of credence to His Majesty Albert II, King of Belgium.

APPOINTED: Murari Raj Sharma, permanent representative at the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations, also as the Royal Nepalese Ambassador to Venezuela, by His Majesty the King, in accordance with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990.

LEFT: Arjun Jung Bahadur Singh, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, for Durban, South Africa, to take part in the 14th ministerial meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non Aligned Movement.

DECLARED: Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepalese woman to scale Mt. Everest, as a national hero.

DIED: Dr. Bihari Lal Shrestha, orthopedist and founder president of Matribhumi Swayamsewak Sangh, at the age of 61.

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