Thursday, August 03, 2006

Prachanda meets PM Koirala



Maoist chairman Prachanda met with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at the latter’s residence at Baluwatar, Kathmandu, Wednesday evening.
Nepali Congress sources said the informal meeting between PM Koirala and the Maoist supremo was mainly focused on how a consensus could be forged regarding management of arms and armies of the state and the Maoists.
The meeting came after the three-day ‘deadline’ set by visiting United Nations Mission led by Staffan de Mistura, asking all concerned sides to arrive at a consensus, before the team’s departure on Thursday, as to how the world body should engage itself in Nepal’s peace process.
Prachanda had entered the PM’s residence at around 5:00 p.m. and stayed there for over two hours, the source said. The two leaders also discussed the implementation process of the 8-point understanding between the seven-party alliance and the CPN (Maoist), among others.
No official word has come regarding the issues discussed at the Koirala-Prachanda meeting.

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