GOVT. TELLS UN SECRETARIAT WILL TAKE ON RESPOSIBILITIES OF RETREATING UNMIN

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 31 Dec.: In a written reply, government told the United Nations Friday a secretariat under the special committee headed by the prime minister for the supervision, resettlement and monitoring of 19,000 plus combatants will be responsible for supervision and monitoring of former Maoist fighters after UNMIN withdraws from Nepal 15January following a failed mission.
UN has been blaming Nepali actors for the failure although under Secretary General Kofi Annan it lobbied to enter Nepal even while negotiating with India-based Maoists declared terrorists by New Delhi, USA and Nepal.
Top UN diplomat Samuel Tamrat handled the negotiations for entry into Nepal to take on an almost impossible task.
The tough government response came in response to UN queries of the future of agreements between Maoists and governing parties and an agreement on UN involvement in monitoring of arms and armies,
Government told the UN there’s no need to keep Nepal Army to be kept under the UNMIN watch after completion the April 2008 elections of the constituent assembly (CA) swept by Maoists.
UN security council discusses Nepal probably for the last time 5 January 20011 before withdrawing.
UNMIN Chief Karin Landgren leaves for New York Saturday to
attend the meeting.
To the embarrassment of UN, Maoists said they duped the world
body to increase their military strength to 19,000 from a mere force of 7,000 to 8,000 combatants.
UNMIN presence represented a foreign presence even though they were invited by major Nepali political players.
Maoists, who oppose foreign presence, pushed for continued UN presence until the end of May 2011 without success.
EU member states sympathetic to Maoists, particularly three Nordic states, had been funding UNMIN activities in Nepal.
An irritated Prime MInister Madhav Kumar Nepal infrustration said Thursday Maoist combatants won;t be integrated even for another 40 years.
Certainly,Maoists aren;t only to blame.
His failur to gauge Maoists in an attempt bring the former rebels into the mainsyreat has barckfired.
He produly has claimed risks he took tobring the Maoists into the mainstream.
Can he explain to the Nepali people and suffering nation the logic for his adventurism? he has to answer to the people and nation.
A desparate outburst from a government chief won;t do any good.
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CAPITAL RECORDS DRIZZLE AND THEN SHOWER

Kathmandu, 31 Dec.: The capital Friday evening recorded a drizzle and then a shower.
But it wasn’t the first winter rain.
The mercury will fall with the shower.
The afternoon was cloudy the whole day Friday as winter peaks.
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