During the meetings held at Prime Minister´s office in Singha Durbar, talks were held on the extension of the UNMIN´s tenure and support Kul Chandra Gautam, Nepal´s candidate for the president of the United Nations General Assembly, said Prime Minister´s Foreign Affairs Advisor Rajan Bhattarai. [break]
Bhattarai said the Prime Minister urged Chinese envoy Qiu Guohong to support Gautam to elect him in the post.
After the meeting, the Chinese envoy said that Nepal´s political parties should make a decision on the UNMIN on the basis of political consensus.
Similarly, Russian Ambassador A.L. Trofimov said the talks focused the two issues and added that Nepal´s parties should decide the issue of the UNMIN´s term extension.
Both the envoys during the meeting told the Prime Minister that they were satisfied with the work of the UNMIN and said that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will decide whether or not to extend the UNMIN´s term on the basis of Nepal´s recommendation to the UNSC and the UNMIN´s report.
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