BHAIRAHAWA, Jan. 6: Minister for Information and Communications and HMG spokesman Ramesh Nath Pandey has made it clear that the government wants to resolve all the problems through dialogue, including the complex one concerning the Maoists.

Talking to journalists at the Gautam Buddha Airport here today in connection with his tour of Rupandehi district, Pandey said that the government was doing the homework for holding elections, a matter of priority for the government.

Earlier, Minister Pandey inspected the Western Regional Directorate of the Nepal Telecommunications Corporation and apprised himself of the wireless telephone system being extended from the office, first in the country.

Likewise, at a meeting with the police chief and chiefs and assistant chiefs of various office, he acquired information on the security scene in the region and issued directives to resolve local level problems at the same level.