The United Nations Mission led by Mr. Staffan de Mistura continued its consultations in Nepal on Sunday.
Team leader of UN mission to Nepal, Staffan de Mistura, talking to journalists after meeting with the government’s peace talks team at the Home Ministry Friday afternoon. Mistura met the Maoist leaders earlier in the day, July 28 06. nepalnews.com/rh
Team leader of UN mission to Nepal, Staffan de Mistura, talking to journalists…
A press release issued by the UN information centre in Kathmandu said, the mission held separate meetings with Minister of Land Reform, Prabhu Narayan Chaudhary, Speaker of the reinstated House of Representatives Subash Nemwang and Parliamentary Peace Committee, the Peace Committee and Peace Secretariat, and the Chief Secretary Mukunda Sharma Poudyal on Sunday.
Talking to journalists following the official meetings, de Mistura emphasized the urgency for key Nepali actors to arrive at a common understanding — on the issue of arms management in particular — before the Mission returns to New York a few days from now and presents its report to the Secretary-General, the statement adds.
Talking to journalists after the meeting with Minister for Land Reform and Management, Prabhu Narayan Chaudhary, chief of the mission de Mistura said, “The main point I tried to make is that we have three and a half days left of the mission and it is very important to have urgently on the side of all of the Nepalese interlocutors a common understanding, especially regarding the issue of arms management.”
The Mission is also scheduled to meet with the National Ceasefire Monitoring Committee, the Interim Constitution Drafting Committee and with representatives of ethnic minorities in Nepal, today.
The release further said, on Saturday, the UN Mission focused its work on internal meetings with the UN agencies based in Nepal.
On Friday the team held discussions with the senior leaders of CPN Maoist, government’s talks teams the Secretary of Defense Bishnu Dutta Uprety and the Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa.
The team will submit its report to the UN secretary general to decide what could be done to assist Nepal’s peace process.