Tourism minister and member of the government’s talks team, Pradeep Gyawali, has said the ‘summit meeting’ between the SPA government and the CPN (Maoist) will take place within a week.

Talking to reporters in Nepalgunj Saturday, Gyawali said the summit meeting would settle the political matters, the King’s position and the arms management issue. “The summit meeting to be held within a week will decide political issues and management of arms,” reports quoted him as saying.

Appreciating the decision of the Maoists to form a 10-member high-level negotiating committee headed by their chairman Prachanda, minister Gyawali said the upcoming summit meeting would also arrive at an agreement on the structure of the interim parliament and the process of constituent assembly.

He said that complete settlement of the armies and the arms of the Maoists would become possible only after the election to constituent assembly and that the stance of representatives of some friendly nations that the rebels should be disarmed right away was not workable.

“But, we are seeking guarantee that arms will not be used during the constituent assembly election,” the government negotiator said and complained that, in villages, the rebels were violating the ceasefire code of conduct and the accords signed with the SPA and the government.

Gyawali also made it known that discussion with United Nations’ monitoring officials on the modalities of arms management was yet to take place.