UN OFFICIAL URGES ‘DIGNIFIED’ RETUN HOMEOFREMAINILNG BHUTANESE REFUGEES Kathmandu, 15 June: A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has stressed that Nepal and Bhutan should immediately open talks for the dignified repatriation of Bhutanese refugees to their home country, RSS reports. Speaking in a news conference held here this afternoon at the end of his four-day official visit to Nepal, Deputy High Commissioner of the UN Refugee Agency T. Alexander Aleinikoff said that since a majority of the Bhutanese refugees have been repatriated to third countries, Nepal and Bhutan should hold talks for repatriating the remaining to Bhutan. The UNHCR official said that 38,000 of the 48,000 Bhutanese refugees currently living in the two refugee camps in Jhapa have opted for third country repatriation and that the rights of those wanting to return to their home country should be respected. He also said that the sides concerned should be sensitive regarding resolving the problem at the earliest. Sixty-five thousand Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in the third countries including in the U.S. as a step taken by the international community to settle the Bhutanese refugee problem which has remained a humanitarian problem since long Nnnn BANK OFFICIAL KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT Kathmandu, 15 June:: Assistant Officer of the Rural Development Bank (RDB), Nepalgunj, who was injured in a road accident at Gabhar road section of Khaskushma VDC in Banke district on Thursday evening, died this morning while undergoing treatment at Kohalpur Teaching Hospital, RSS reports from Nepalgunj. The deceased has been identified as Rajesh Kumar Pokhrel of Dang district. According to the Area Police Office, Kohalpur, the accident took place while a jeep was heading towards Nepalgunj from Dang district. Four persons were injured in the accident. Seriously injured jeep driver Krishna Sunar and another Prakash KC are undergoing treatment in Lucknow, India and in Kathmandu respectively. nnnn