INDIA EXTRADITES ARMED TERAI GROUP LEADERI

INDIA EXTRADITES DISTRICT LEADER OF ARMED TERAI GROUP

Kathmandu, 19 June: India overnight extradited Indrajit Yadav Tyagi, Mohottari in-charge of Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha Jwala Group to Nepal.
Indian police handed him over to Nepali counterparts at the Mojottari border, Radio Nepal said.
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OFFICIALS CLOSE DOWN KANCHANPUR UPDATE

Kathmandu, 19 June: Trade unions of government officials SUndayclosed down all offices in Kanchanpur in far-West Sunday.
The unions are protesting the apparent murder of a technician of Dodhara VDC in the district.
His body was found in a communist forest along the Indo-Nepal border Friday.
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JOINT MAOIST, UML TEAM VISITING CHINA
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Kathmandu, 19 June: A 12-member joint team of governing UCPN (Maoist) and UML parties begins a visit of China Monday at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party.
The delegations are led by junior party members.
The Maoist team is led by politburo member Indira Mohan Sigdel; Dharma Nath Prasad Sah leads the UML team.
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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS LDC ACTION PLAN

Kathmandu, 19 June: The 100th meeting of the UN general assembly in New York Friday endorsed the Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for 2011-2020.
Nepal is ranked in the group.
The declaration was adopted by the fourth UN Conference of LDCs held in Istanbul 9 to 13 May.
Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal, in his first foreign visit after appointment 3 February, chaired the conference as the current chairman of the current global coordination bureau of 49 members of LDCs
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‘We cannot be independent unless we correct flawed treaties, including the Sughauli Treaty. For that, we must forge an understanding with all the parties. This must not be the agenda of one party.”

(Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, The Himalayan Times, 19 June)
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