Implement CPA: UNSC asks govt, parties UN refutes 'interference'
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KATHMANDU, Nov 7: The UN Security Council has urged Nepal government and all parties to implement the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) and take necessary decisions to allow UNMIN to complete its tasks within its current mandate.
Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting of Austria, which holds the rotating UNSC presidency for this month, told reporters in New York on Friday that the 15-member body “urged the Government of Nepal and all parties to work together in a spirit of compromise and in a forward-oriented manner to implement the CPA”.
Mayr-Harting´s made the remarks to media persons following a closed-door briefing by UNMIN head Karin Landgren to the UNSC, according to UN News Center. Landgren presented Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon´s latest report on UNMIN. Landgren, representative of the UN Secretary-General, said that three years on, a review of the progress in the implementation of the major peace agreements may be overdue, and the principal parties should also be encouraged to take stock of the state of the peace process.
She told the UN Security Council that there has been limited progress in overcoming the political impasse that emerged in the country earlier this year, and little movement on the remaining tasks of the peace process. She also expressed fears of added risk of confrontation.
UNMIN cannot go indefinitely
Landgren said that the mandate of UNMIN due to expire in less than three months cannot go on indefinitely.
“Until the parties establish a clearer framework for cooperation, and find ways of moving forward on major elements of the peace process, it is difficult to plot a structured exit for UNMIN,” she added.
The current mandate of the special UN mission in Nepal ends January 23 next year. The special mission started its initial one-year tenure in January 2007 and has had four extensions of six months each.
She has urged the political parties to arrest the loss of momentum and invest goodwill, realism and rigor in their pursuit of sustainable peace in Nepal. “We strongly encourage the parties to recall and to repeat the cooperation which has to date yielded such significant achievements,” she further said.
Landgren reported that the impasse that emerged following the events of May -- when the president revoked the then army chief´s dismissal, and consequently the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) stepped down from the government -- remains unresolved.
She also suggested that the president´s power be defined. "It would appear to be in the interest of the democratic process for the parties to agree, pending the promulgation of the new constitution, on the ambit of presidential authority."
The UNMIN chief’s briefing to UNSC in a May 25 report over support to Maoist government’s move to dismiss Rookmangud Katawal was factually incorrect and so far neither the UNMIN, nor the secretary-general or the UNSC have corrected the information.
´No interference´
UN spokesperson Michele Montas, who was asked Friday about criticism made by political parties in Nepal to the Secretary-General´s report, said that Ban´s observations are consistent with his repeated calls for unity and consensus among the political parties to ensure the success of the peace process.
The 22 ruling parties have dubbed Ban´s call for national unity government an “interference” in Nepal´s internal affairs.
“The report is intended to encourage Nepal´s political parties to achieve what they themselves have expressed about the desirability of a unity government and does not in any way represent a form of interference,” Montas told reporters.
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Implement CPA: UNSC Asks Govt, Parties UN Refutes 'interference'
UN and Landgren are hell bent on pushing the country backward. All these Europeans have this idealistic dream of seeing a radical socialist govt in Nepal, while they enjoy their freedom and capitalism. Landgren needs to be sent home soon.
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