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UN:
NEPAL'S PEACE PROCESS ON TRACK BUT CHALLENGES
REMAIN - BAN KI-MOON: 25/7/2007
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July 2007 – The
ongoing peace process in Nepal appears on track to deliver peace and stability,
but the national political scene there become more complex and challenging in
recent months, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes in a new report,
urging efforts to maintain the positive momentum.
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“Renewed
and expanded efforts will have to be made to sustain the successful
trajectory of the peace process,” Mr. Ban states in his latest report on
Nepal, where a peace accord signed last November formally ended a
decade-long conflict that killed an estimated 13,000 people.
Among
recent challenges, Mr. Ban cited the postponement of the Constituent
Assembly election, which was originally scheduled for mid-June but is now
slated for 22 November because regulations governing the process were not
ready in time.
Mr.
Ban warns that failure to ensure a credible election within a realistic and
well-planned period could have a serious impact on the unity of the
country’s eight ruling parties and their ability to function in unison
within the existing coalition.
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A
successful election is the “central element” of the country’s
democratization process, the report stresses.
“The
stakes are too high,” he writes, adding that “complacency or differences
over secondary issues cannot be allowed to threaten or deny the people of Nepal
the realization of their ardent desire for sustainable peace.”
He adds
that the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)
– tasked with supporting the election – continues to advise that
“considerable work needs to be done” if the Constituent Assembly election is
to be held this November.
The
overall human rights situation in the country continues to be “worrying,”
Mr. Ban states. The main concerns are linked to inadequate public security and
law enforcement and to unresolved issues of discrimination regarding
representation and inclusion in the political process.
Meanwhile,
the UN announced that it has signed the necessary agreements with the Government
of Nepal to pave the way for the establishment in Kathmandu of the UN Regional
Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific.
The
Centre, created by the UN General Assembly in 1987, has been operating out of
New York since 1989.
“Over
the last 17 years, the role of the Regional Centre has been dramatically
transformed from the original task of disseminating objective disarmament
information to an important partner of the Member States and other constituents
in the Asia-Pacific region for the common cause of a better and safer world,”
stated its Director, Tsutomu Ishiguri.
The UN Office
for Disarmament Affairs, assisted by the UN
Development Programme’s country office
in Nepal, is working with the Nepalese Government to relocate the Centre to
Kathmandu within six months.
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