Nepal put across such views view during his meeting with Dahal at the former´s official residence at Baluwatar, Saturday evening. [break]
“Calling a house session is not a problem, but forging an agreement on the prime ministerial candidate is,” Nepal´s press advisor Bishnu Rijal quoted him as telling Dahal during the 20-minute meeting.
Rijal said Dahal agreed with Nepal to call the House session after forging political consensus. However Dahal´s statement could not be verified from the Maoist side as he was the sole party leader during the meeting, while Nepal was accompanied by Minister for Home Affairs Bhim Rawal and Rijal.
Earlier in the day, the ruling parties had suggested to Nepal to call the House session only after forging an inter-party agreement on the prime ministerial candidate.
According to Rijal, the Maoist chairman stated that his party is ready for the government being headed by the big three parties by turns. But the prime minister was not positive about Dahal´s suggestion. “You want rotational system at this juncture. If the parties had agreed to this system earlier, one of them could have already finished its tenure,” Nepal told Dahal.
The prime minister also told Dahal that it would be inappropriate to push for extension of UNMIN term as the UN Security Council has already decided to end the term as per the last request of the Nepal government. “It is a matter of state diplomacy. Now it is not good to push for UNMIN´s term extension,” Nepal told Dahal.
Nepal also complained that he resigned under pressure “for the sake of peace process”, but no new government has been formed even after six months of his resignation.
Both leaders had agreed that the peace and constitution drafting could still be completed within the next six months before the constitution drafting deadline expires May 28, 2011. They also agreed to step up bilateral, trilateral and multilateral talks to break the deadlock.
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