Gajurel reiterated the party´s policy of poll boycott a day after he and Baidya returned from four-day China visit. "The rumors that Chinese leaders urged us to participate in coming elections and re-unify with the UCPN (Maoist) are completely baseless,” Gajurel said at a function organized in Kathmandu on Friday. “They suggested to us to take the decision on our own.” [break]
He, however, said that China was worried about the prolonging political transition in the country and that “they wanted to see Nepali political parties reaching a political agreement on ending the transition and Nepal progressing toward peace and stability.”
During the four-day visit to the northern neighbor, Baidya and Gajurel met Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao and other senior Chinese leaders.
Gajurel said they held talks on various issues including Nepal´s economic prosperity and strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries and Chinese Communist Party and CPN-Maoist at the people´s level.
He also claimed that the meeting with Chinese leaders wouldn´t make any changes in the party´s official position vis-à-vis participation in the coming election. He informed that the party´s talks team would hold dialogues with the government and other major parties soon.
Gajurel claimed that it was only a coincidence that they happened to leave for China visit while Indian Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid arrived in Kathmandu.
He also claimed that his party adopts similar policy with regard to both India and China. “We visit China because Chinese leaders invite us and we don´t visit India because they don´t invite us,” he explained.
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