UNMIN chief claims peace is progressing

SOUTH ASIAN MEDIA NET / THE HIMALAYAN TIMES

KATHMANDU: United Nations Mission in Nepal Chief Karin Landgren says the present peace process in Nepal hasmade progress in the past 10 days. ‘I am pleased to hightlight today the significant developments in the peace process of the past 10 days, the four-point agreement, the so-called “gentlemen’s agreement” and the resumption of the work of the Special Committee,” she says in a press conference organised by the mission.

“While there was indeep a sense of relief that an agreement had been reached, the challenge of implementation is now in the hands of the parties,” the UNMIN chief said.

Landgren, quoting the United Nations Secretary General as saying, called on the parties to invest greater effort in serious and sustained political dialogue, saying that the choice between continued inertia and fresh momemtum lies is the hands of the national leadership.

“In my briefging to the Security Countil on Sept. 7, I reported that there had not been any real progress in the peace process for much of 2010 that the parties were paying insufficient attention to the process and on the unfounded criticism of UNMIN’s work.”

“The reference to a new duly formed governmetn did not question the legitimacy of this government, merely reflected the ongoing elections to form a new government in due course,” he said.