CHINESE SLAP FOR MADHAV KUMAR NEPAL

By Bhola B Rana


Kathmandu, 24 Oct.: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who has been a caretaker for more than four months, warned Sunday he’ll take action against Maoist military leaders who visited neighouring China without the permission of a special committee he heads to integrate, supervise and rehabilitate former 19,000 plus Maoist combatants,
The visit of the Maoist PLA delegation to China that concluded last week has come as a serious embarrassment to the caretaker government PM Nepal.
The visit of the PLA delegation, at a time when the integration, resettlement and supervision of the former Maoists combatants has hit a hurdle, is a formal recognition and encouragement by Beijing to the PLA after the 12-point New Delhi peace accord between seven parliamentary parties and Maoists who were operating from Indian soil.
Beijing has openly shown its distrust of the government by inviting a purely military delegation to China.
Nepal didn’t criticize China in his remarks Sunday.
The agreement was signed under Indian tutelage and then foreign monoester saying India handed over a draft of the agreement on a piece of paper written in pencil before a meeting between Girija Prasad Koiral and self-esilrd Prachanda in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi after the failed royal takeover..
India gave shelter to Nepal’s Maoists as it rejected talks wigt its own Maoists or Naxalites after throwing King Birendra’s proposal to support Nepal as a zone of peace supported by more than 100 countires, including most of the members of the UN security council, including USA and Chna.
The support for Nepal and King Birendra irritated and angered India which then gave succor to Nepal’s Maoists to ultimately topple the 230-year Shan monarchy.
The revolution to topple monarchy hasn’t been sealed as yet/ constitutionally.
Madhab Kumar Nepal. Who is just a caretaker, can’t push his threat to punish Maoists.
He’s a caretaker government chief whose threats have very little
credibility; he met exiled Maoists in India and negotiated the 12-pomt peace agreement with Indian government knowledge.
To recall, Maoist combatants haven’t come under the command and control of the special committee Nepal heads even as Maoists have agreed to bring former Maoists under its command and control.
China is apparently pushing a new game-plan in Nepal with the support of some European states, USA, using UN as a front.
Beijing was lukewarm. along with Russia, to extend a seventh tenure of UNMIN which now expires 15 January 20011.
The battle for influence in the Himalayan state between India and China at the foot of Mount Everest has intensified.
China has developed formal ties with PLA as three insignificant Scandinavian states, so-called neutral Switzerland that shies away from becoming a member of the UN or EU and, surprisingly United Kingdom, fund the upkeep of Maoist combatants in 28 cantonments and satellite camps under UN watch.
The foreign donors are funding the upkeep of 19,000 Maoist combatants through a peace fund managed by government; government has congributef Rs 5 billion and donors Rs 3 billion to the fund.
USA hasn’t contributed any money directly to the peace fund.
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PARTIES EXTEND TENURE OF PRACHANDA-LED TASK FORCE

Kathmandu, 24 Oct.: Twenty-seven parties in parliament Sunday extended a tenure of the Prachanda-led high-level task force to prepare suggestions for drafting a constitution within the net seven months,
The force couldn’t complete its ask Sunday,
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