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UN Under Secretary General In Nepal For A Two-day Visit
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 3, 2010: UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe has arrived in Nepal today morning for a two-day visit to ascertain the possible scenario of the peace process after the UNMIN leaves Nepal after January 15, 20110.
Officiating Deputy Prime Minister Bijaya Gacchedar with the leaders of NC have met with Pascoe and proposed to replace the UNMIN with the retired Nepal Army officers disregarding the opposition of the UCPN-Maoist but what Pascoe has told them has not come to light.
They have also asked for the UN technical assistance such as closed circuit televisions required for monitoring the members of the People’s Liberation Army housed in different cantonments after the UNMIN leaves Nepal. Pascoe has obviously assured them of such assistance for three years from the New York after the exit of the UNMIN from Nepal.
Pascoe has met with President Ram Baran Yadav and Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda. Both of them have assured him of building a consensus on integrating the two armies. Such assurances have been the regular assurances the Nepalese political leaders and officials give the foreign dignitaries at the same time not breaking the current political deadlock even for electing a new Prime Minister.
The President has been happy to discontinue the ongoing House session and then introduce the budget for the fiscal year 2010 disregarding the values and norms of parliamentary democracy. So, these so-called leaders and elected officials of Nepal have been saying they are for strengthening the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal but at the same time killing the democratic values and norms.
Pascoe is holding talks with leaders of other political parties, and government officials to find out how far they have moved to completing the peace process and integrating the to armies, and whether they have kept the assurances they have made to him during his previous visit. It will be interesting for him to find nothing has happened so far.
