US supportive of Maoist govt
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NEW YORK, SEP 25 -
The United States on Saturday said it is supportive of the efforts made by Nepal’s Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on the drafting of a new constitution and expressed willingness to remove the terrorist tag from the Maoist party if it renounces violence.
Speaking to journalists at a press meeting in New York on Friday, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O Blake said the US welcomes the urgency shown by the new prime minister in completing the peace process.
“We wish him well in the important task that he has already set up himself for his government in move to peace process to draft a new constitution,” said Blake, add-ing, “And, I think he himself is very eager to make progress on this and he has set up himself pretty ambitious timet-ables which, again I think is very appropriate and welcome and we support them.”
When asked if the US would consider removing the terrorist tag from the Maoist party, Blake said that US would be happy to take them off the list, given that the Maoist Young Communist League abandons violence. He said: “We have set out a number of criteria that we hope the Maoists will meet that will enable us to look at this and ultimately, perhaps remove them from this list. This includes things like stopping the violent activities of the Young Communist League, renouncing terrorism, and some other steps.”
He said that the US supported the government and that Washington was continuing its engagement with the Maoist party.
“We are continuing those conversations and again, we would like to see progress on all of these things, because we would be happy to remove but it’s important for the Maoists themselves to make progress on these criteria,” Blake said.
Posted on: 2011-09-25 09:54
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