Prachanda reveals 3 parties also agreed to PM Nepal’s resignation

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 4 June: Maoist Chairman Prachanda said he and UML leader KP Sharma Oli reached an agreement last week Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal would resign in five days.
He revealed there was also an agreement between three parties as well even as ruling parties deny it.
“It takes a long time to complete the peace process. It can’t be concluded in five days. There was an agreement first between Oliji and me and then between three parties to resign in five days,” the Maoist strongman told Annapurna Post in an interview Friday.
He said there’s no link between the resignation and understanding for the peace process and constitution drafting.
“The issues are separate.”
Maoists haven’t abandoned claim to the leadership of a national government, Prachanda said.
“.. Maoists haven’t abandoned their claim to the leadership [of national unity government]. It’s not that Maoists have left the claim to the leadership of the government under chairman,” he added in reply to a question whether it’s true the main opposition is open to an alternate to a national unity government.
A government must be formed under Maoist leadership, Prachanda asserted in reply to a question if a national government could be formed under NC.
“If the peace process is to be concluded by going for understanding, a government should be formed under Maoist leadership; it can’t be formed under leadership of others,” the main opposition chief said.
He revealed the party’s forthcoming standing committee meet will finalize details of anti-government protests following the public resurrection of differences between ruling parties and UCPN (Maoist).

Nepal, China to curb illegal wildlife trade

Kathmandu, 4 June: Nepal and China signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bio-diversity conservation and controlling of illegal trade of wildlife and forest products, RSS reports.
Secretary of the Ministry of Forests Yubaraj Bhusal and Deputy Administrator of State Forestry Administration of China Yin Hong signed in the agreement in Beijing today [Thursday].
The Ministry informed that the agreement paper is in Nepali, Chinese and English languages.
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No on arrival visas of Nepalis in Macau

Kathmandu, 4 June: Beginning 1 July: Nepalis won’t get on arrival visas in Macau.
A notice signed by Chief Executive Fernando Chui issued the order.
Citizens of Bangladesh, Pakistan Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Nigeria have also been denied the facility.
Nepalis will have to collect visas from the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu.
Macau, where an estimated 2,000 Nepalis are working, is an attractive popular destination for Nepali workers.
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British climber killed on Tibet side of Everest

Kathmandu, 4 June: A British man who was unable to descend following his climb to the top of Mount Everest died near the summit, AP reports from Beijing.
Peter Kinlock reached the top of Everest May25 but died the next morning, the company he was climbing with, the British-based Summit Club, said.
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“The OHCHR, in its lengthy observation report, said that the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) members from cantonment sites were verified as having engaged in the protest programmes [from 1 to 9 May] in an organized manner.

(Report in The Rising Nepal, 4 June)

‘Plagued by internal divisions, the UML and the NC are unable to rejuvenate themselves at the grassroots. Lacking the capacity to fight the Maoists politically, they have taken to lobbying with the Indian government and the old security establishment as a means of strengthening themselves. None of this is going to help.)

(The Hindu editorial, 4 June)