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The Nepal government on Wednesday decided to inform the international community including the United Nations that the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) has unilaterally violated the peace agreement.
Maoists have violated the peace agreement time and again,and it is time we informed the international community about it, said Information Minister Shankar Pokharel. However,the Maoists see the governments decision as a provocation to return to armed struggle.
If that is what the government wants,we are ready for it, said K B Mahara,chief of international affairs of the UNCPN-M. Senior leaders of the party have of late been making public statements that the government is preparing for an armed confrontation with Maoists.
Apart from the UN,the government also plans to inform all ambassadors and chiefs of mission based in Kathmandu about the peace process.
But we want to solicit their help to caution and advise the Maoists not to abandon the peace process, a senior minister told The Indian Express.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and UCPN-M chairman Prachanda had decided on Tuesday to bury their differences and do everything possible to save the peace process. Moreover,top leader of three political parties had set the deadline for Thursday to end the three-month-long disruption of Parliament by the Maoists.
In the past three months,Pokharel said,the Maoists have captured property and harvested crops there in violation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and code of conduct that was simultaneously authored.
