Kathmandu, Feb 22: Visiting Rachel Schiller, Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Programs and Operations, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, inaugurated a solar hybrid project at Birendra Peace Operations Training Centre in Panchkhal.
She is in Nepal to attend the Nepali Army and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Joint Exercise Shanti Prayas IV at the Birendra Peace Operations Training Center in Panchkhal.
The project is a collaboration between Nepal, the United Nations, and the United States aimed at transitioning power generation for Nepali battalions based in South Sudan from diesel generators to a hybrid solar-powered generator.
According to the U.S. Embassy, this initiative will reduce the carbon footprint of the deployed peacekeepers, and the United States would like to applaud Nepali Army’s leadership in pursuing this environmental initiative in Nepal and the battalion camp in the UN Mission in South Sudan.
The United States remains committed to promoting global peace and security by helping to improve the peacekeeping capabilities of Nepali peacekeepers, it added.
