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Dahal asked PM 4 months for integration

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HONG KONG, Jan 1: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has disclosed that UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has sought four months for the integration of Maoist combatants in the security forces and other sectors.



"I think Prachandaji (Dahal) had made an analysis of the situation before he put forward the idea of four months for the purpose. It will be good if we could complete all the tasks related to the army," Nepal told myrepublica.com at Hong Kong International Airport while on route home from China Thursday. The prime minister said that constitution-writing can be done in the remaining one and a half months after resolving the army issue. [break]



According to him, Dahal asked the prime minister for four months during a secret meeting between the two leaders in the evening of December 22, just a few hours after Dahal, addressing the party´s mass gathering in New Baneshwar, vowed to speak only to New Delhi to resolve the political deadlock in the country.



Nepal termed Dahal´s speech nothing but merely a political stunt. "He talked to me on the same evening just a few hours after he announced at the mass meeting that he would not hold any dialogue with government."



A recent cabinet meeting decided to extend UNMIN´s term by four months.



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