UML demands implementation of 3-party agreement (DEVELOPING STORY)


Kathmandu, 1 June. UML which is leading a 22-party coalition government headed by its former Secretary General Madhav Kumar Nepal Tuesday urged full implementation of Friday’s a three-point agreement between two ruling coalition and main opposition Maoists.
Chairman Jhalanath Khanal Tuesday briefed standing committee members on details of the 3-point midnight agreement.
A tradition has developed in the last four years to reach midnight agreements.
The latest agreement has also run into foul weather.
Maoists claim there was a verbal agreement between Maoists and UML Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal should resign by Wednesday with ruling parties denying such a deal before the breakthrough agreement.
Maoists have warned of a ‘serious accident; if Nepal doesn’t resign.
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Comment of Indian newspaper reflecting Indian establishment thinking

Kathmandu, 1 June: New Delhi’s daily newspaper Times of India that usually reflects Indian government thinking Tuesday in an editorial entitled Thaw in Kathmandu’ Maoists must accept multiparty democracy and rule of law.
‘The Maoists must realise that parallel state structures will not help the cause of multiparty democracy or the rule of law….” the edit said supporting the Nepali government position.
The present government gave up the position to scrap parallel state structures under foreign pressure to conduct the 10April CA polls in 2008 to conduct assembly polls swept by Maoists.
Without Maoist concessions,” The future may be even worst than the past,.” the newspaper predicted.
The newspaper warned if patties ‘don’t consolidate the gains of the anti-monarchy struggle’ it predicted “..the future may be worse that the past.”
The Friday agreement, the newspaper said,’ saved Nepal from a major political crisis”.
Parties are agreed ‘only on one issue-extending the term of the constituent assembly”.
‘Hopefully, these parties will not let the disagreement destroy the consensus to work together for a new constitution.”
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