United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has said Nepal’s peace process has made great achievements in the last one year’s time.

He also stated that questions still remained about the registration and verification of the Maoist arms and armies.

“The peace process in Nepal has made remarkable progress since the start of last year, but complex questions remain about how to monitor the management of arms and armed personnel,” Moon stated in his Nepal report presented to the Security Council.

Moon stressed the need to hold the constituent assembly elections in a manner that reflects the genuine will of the Nepalis, including the marginalized communities.

“Few could have imagined at the beginning of 2006 that an end to the armed conflict would have been declared, the UN would have started implementing an agreement on managing arms and armed personnel, and that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) would have entered an interim legislature with the Government,” the report said. “These are historic achievements,” he noted.

The Secretary General also lauded the willingness shown by the political parties to seek consensus on many contentious issues though some of the underlying causes of the conflict were yet to be addressed.

He also expressed concern over the living conditions of the Maoist armies and poor infrastructure in the cantonments.

He said conditions at cantonment sites have been of great concern to the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) considering the approaching rainy season.

He has also raised the issue of deteriorating human rights situation in Nepal and called for cooperative efforts. “It will also require a cooperative effort to establish public security through effective law enforcement that respects human rights, in a country previously divided between State and non-State actors and where the police have yet to be deployed nationwide,” he said.