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Confirmation Hearing On US Nominee For Ambassador To Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
February 4, 2010: in the Senate Confirmation Hearing, US nominee for ambassador to Nepal Scott H DeLisi has said that he would support the government of Nepal for completing the peace process, and writing of a new constitution on a short-term program, and would closely work with the political leaders of Nepal for setting up a stable government that respects human rights of all citizens if he is confirmed.
DeLisi has said that the US has blacklisted the Maoists following an attack on the American Center in Kathmandu in 2004; since then the political landscape has changed in Nepal and the Maoists’ conduct has changed as well; however, whether their beliefs and attitudes have changed or not remains to be seen.”
DeLisi has said that the United States has been reviewing a key demand of the Maoists for removing them from the designated terrorists on the State Department’s list but they need to take some of the steps that will allow the US to look at removing them from the terrorist exclusion list. He said, “I think we still need to see some more progress before delisting. Some of the fundamental things that we have asked of them to remove them from the list have yet to be addressed—one of them is for them to fundamentally renounce the use of violence and terror as a political instrument.”
He has said that he is also especially concerned with the prevailing culture of impunity in Nepal and would work with the political leaders to end the impunity particularly concerning the human rights abuses.
