Nepal's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, Durga Prasad Bhattarai, has been elected as the chairman of the Administrative and Budgetary Committee for the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. According to a press statement issued Tuesday by Nepal's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, Ambassador Bhattarai was unanimously elected as the chairman of the Committee, also known as the Fifth Committee. Ambassador Bhattarai will serve in this capacity from the beginning of the UNGA-70 on 15 September 2015 to its closure in September 2016.
