UN CHIEF CANCELED NEPAL VISIT BECAUSE ON NON-COMPLETION OF PEACE PROCESS

UN CHIEF CANCELED NEPAL VISIT FOR NON-COMPLETION OF PEACE PROCESS
Kathmandu, 3 April: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cancelled his first scheduled Nepal visit beginning 28 April for various reasons, including non-completion of the peace process.
“The reason behind the postponement of Ban’s visit is not due to differing opinions within and without. It was stalled due to time constraint for Ban himself, lack of progress on Lumbini conference and the logjam in Nepal’s peace process.
“As soon as the peace process makes some headway, Secretary General Ban’s visit is likely to take place,” The Kathmandu Post quoted a ‘knowledgeable source’ as saying.
Nepal’s Permanent Representative to the UN Gyan Chandra Acharya is presently in the capital carrying a letter from a top UN official regretting the cancellation of the visit, the newspaper reported.
“We are sorry for rescheduling your planned international meeting on Lumbini and hope that it will take place soon,” Acharya said quoting the letter’s content.
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MADHAV KUMAR NEPAL HOPEFUL CONSTITUTION WILL BE PROMULGATED WITHIN DEADLINE
Kathmandu, 3 April: Senior leader of the CPN-UML, Madhav Kumar Nepal has expressed his hope that the country would get the new constitution and the peace process would be concluded before May 27, RSS reports from .Nepalgunj.

Addressing the mid-western regional mass meet organised by the party on Tuesday, he said, "If the political parties are honest to Nepal and Nepali, they must forge consensus on the issues of peace and constitution."

On the occasion, he accused the UCPN-Maoist of creating hitches time and again on the peace process and obstructing the constitution writing.

Moreover, leader Nepal claimed that only his party was able to take the country towards a progressive path.

Speaking at the same programme, Vice-chairpersons of the party-Bam Dev Gautam and Bidya Bhandari said peace process cannot reach conclusion nor can the constitution be drafted until the Maoist party becomes responsible towards the country and people.
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KAMAL THAPAR REITERATES NO CONSTITUTION BY 27 MAY DEADLINE

Kathmandu, 3 April: Chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, Kamal Thapa claimed on Tuesday that the nation will not get the new constitution within May 27 at any cost, RSS reports from Pyuthan.

Thapa, who arrived here to address the Pyuthan District Convention of the party, said it was not possible to promulgate the new constitution within the next 55 days of the Constituent Assembly as the leaders of major political parties are sticking to their guns.

He said new constitution has been uncertain for the political parties are engrossed in party interest and game for power.

Chairman Thapa further called for going for a new political process as per the Supreme Court directive if the constitution was not promulgated in the slated timeframe
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RHINO KILLED BY POACHER IN CHITWAN
Kathmandu, 3 April:The Chitwan National Park has experienced the killing of a pachyderm barely three months following the celebration of the year 2011 as zero poaching year, RSS reports from Chitwan.
Chief Conservation Officer at the Chitwan National Park, Jhamak Bahadur Karki, said a rhino was found killed with her horn chopped inside the park.

The female rhinoceros was found dead at Sailimaili River in the western belt of the park, he said, adding more information about the poaching was yet to be garnered.

The National Park has launched a manhunt for the poacher.
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