KATHMANDU, AUG 18 -
To boost Nepal’s presidential candidacy in the 66th UN General Assembly (UNGA), the government decided to withdraw its candidacy from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). 

The Cabinet will take a decision in this regard, said a government source. The prime minister informed about the decision to Trilochan Uprety, secretary at Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday, who filed the candidacy. Nepal’s Permanent Mission to the UN has recommended that the government withdraw its candidacy from ICCPR.

The mission believes that the withdrawal will ease the burden in the run-up to three UN elections in which Nepal had filed its candidacy: UNGA, UN’s Economic and Social Council and the International Law Commission.

Posted on: 2010-08-19 08:08

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