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Summit talks again postponed to Oct 15

The third round of summit talks between ruling seven party alliance (SPA) and Maoists has been postponed till 15th October without making any major breakthrough.

The meeting that started at 2:15 p.m. ended early by 3:20 p.m. after the Maoists reportedly alleged that the political agendas of the seven political parties are not clear.

The summit talks has been postponed for doing more homework in the political agendas.

Leaders of eight political parties had been saying that today’s talks will make a historic decision to bring the talks to a logical end.

The first and second round of meetings ended inconclusively as the ruling SPA and Maoists failed to find consensus in issues like Maoist arms management, fate of monarchy, and interim legislature among others.

Prior to the summit level talks, top leaders of major four parties – Nepali Congress, NC (Democratic), Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) and Maoists held a meeting at Baluwatar this morning to resolve the hitherto unresolved issues such as arms management, status of monarchy and modalities of interim arrangement including interim parliament and interim government as the government and Maoist talks teams failed to find consensus in these issues earlier.

Tuesday's summit meeting also assigned the talks teams of the government and the Maoists to explore points of commonalities in the unresolved issues.

The coordinator of the both the talks teams are scheduled to inform the press about the postponement at the Peace Secretariat at 4.30 p.m. nepalnews.com pb/sd Oct 12 06