PM DISCUSSEDPROMILGATINGTHEEE Kathmandu, 11 June: Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai Sunday evening discussed with President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav promulgating three ordinances relating to organized crime, extradition and legal assistance agreement. Some members, including rebel Maoists, objected to sections of the bills that weren’t approved the dissolved parliament. Without the passage, Nepal faces blacklisting by international financial institutions. Nepal was under intense international pressure to sign the bills before the dissolution of constituent assembly/parliament. nnnn BHUTANESE REFGEE RE-REGISTRATION STARTS IN EAST NEPALKathmandu, Kathmandu, 11 June: The government in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has resumed the process of registering Bhutanese refugees in Jhapa and Morang districts, Chetak Adhikari writes in The Kathmandu Post from Damak.. With this, around 3,000 refugees, among around 4,000 who are yet to be recognised as ‘refugee’, are expected to receive identity cards this year. Secretary of the Beldangi Refugee Camp DB Subba said the Refugee Coordination Unit (RCU) is collecting registration forms from refugees who are willing to get identity cards. Surendra Thapa, the RCU chief, said they are collecting details of three kinds of refugees—those who are registered as refugees but remained absent in previous registration processes, those who only submitted photographs but were not registered and those who are not registered at all. Chief District Officer Narendraraj Sharma, who is also the director of the RCU, said an investigation committee formed by the government will distribute identity cards among identity-deprived refugees on the basis of required documents. Secretary of the Identity and Relief-deprived Refugee Group Kishor Adhikari hoped that the process will address all their problems except the issues of re-registration of refugees and recognition of non-refugee women who married the refugees. The government had distributed identity cards to around 1,500 refugees in a similar registration process last year. Nnnn NO BUDGET WITHOUT CONSENSUS SAYS DR.MAHAT Kathmandu, 11 June: Former Finance Minister and Nepali Congress leader Ram Sharan Mahat has stressed that the government should not bring budget without forging consensus among the political parties, RSS reports. Speaking at a programme organized by the Nepal Students' Union here on Sunday, he said the government had no rights to bring budget through ordinance. NC leader Mahat claimed that consensus among the political parties was must to bring budget through ordinance in the special situation. However, such budget could not bring new programmes, he argued. In a different note, Congress leader Mahat said it was not good for the government head to go for foreign visit in context that the nation was passing through hard times. He urged the government to cut the scheduled foreign visits and take initiative to resolve the political deadlock in the country. During the programme, NSU Acting President Kshitiz Bhandari claimed the incumbent government did not have rights to bring budget through ordinance. He warned of protest if the government attempted to bring budget through such process. RSS nnnn