The all-party Peace Committee has finalized a 10-point draft of the comprehensive peace accord.

The five-hour-long meeting of the committee held at Peace Secretariat in Singhdurbar on Saturday, finalized the draft. The Committee intends to submit the finalized draft to the talks team of both the government as well as the Maoists on Sunday.

After the leadership of the government, seven parties and the Maoists agree upon the draft, they will sign it by November 16 – the timeline fixed by the November 8 agreement.

The Peace Committee, which is headed by general secretary of the Nepali Congress (NC) Ram Chandra Poudel, includes representatives from seven parties as well as other parties represented in the House of Representatives such as Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP), and other faction of People’s Front Nepal (PFN).

The draft of the peace accord includes provision about formally declaring the end of armed conflict in the country. Poudel told Kantipur daily that the accord wants the country to return to the situation before 1996 when there was no people’s war.

Likewise, other provisions of the draft include the ones that propose to ban all kinds of activities such as extortion, abduction and movement of Maoist cadres in combat dress and public display of their arms. It also proposes to return properties and lands seized during the conflict and create environment to ease the return of displaced persons, among others. The draft also has provision as per which anyone found violating it would have to face punishment as per the state law.