Russia calls for constitutional forces to unite

February 11, 2004
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Kathmandu: A press conference was organized today to celebrate the Russian Diplomat’s day by the Russian embassy here.

The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Nepal, H.E Valery V. Nazarov speaking at the program said that ” It is premature for Russia to say what kind of support is to be provided to the Nepalese government in fighting against the extremist activities”. But said, “We are ready to support if formally asked by the government”.

He said, ” Nepal and Russia both share the same kind of threat form the extremists”. He was reminding the recent extremist’s attacks on one Metro Station in the Russian capital Moscow with lots of casualties. He, however, preferred not to dub the Maoists as “terrorists”. Not very surprising then, the RF diplomat revealed that his stance towards the Maoists is much the same with those of the Chinese. He opined that his Chinese colleagues take the Maoists as “so-called” Maoists.

But the fact is that the RF diplomat says at one point in his statement, “Russia is aware of the terrorist threat to Nepal”. When admitting that his host country had been experiencing terrorist threat, the Ambassador very cleverly absolves the Maoists from calling terrorists.

“Nepal and Russia, both share the same position on various international issues such as having Multi-Polar world instead of a Uni-Polar one”, Nazarov said.

Touching on the current Nepali events, Ambassador Nazarov appealed all to join hands in order to take out the country from the current stalemate.

” We hope the government and all the responsible political forces will join hands for a political settlement of the existing problems with a view to putting an end to confrontation, violence and terror”, continued Ambassador Nazarov.

This means that he is in favor of the political parties coming closer with the king and vice versa. He also wished that Nepal be allowed to take up her internal issues to be sorted out internally.

Does this mean that he is against Comrade Prachanda’s fresh call for a UN mediation between the two warring rivals? Should this mean that Ambassador Nazarov is siding with the establishment line that summarily rejects third party mediation in the whole affair?