Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal Saturday briefed the parliamentary committee formed to monitor the implementation of five-point agreement about the progress towards starting the integration of the Maoist combatants.
Prime Minister Khanal briefed the committee about the decisions undertaken by the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) during a meeting of the monitoring committee held in Singha Durbar. PM Khanal heads the AISC.
Submitting the progress report to the monitoring committee, Prime Minister Khanal informed that AISC had met five times after the signing of the five-point agreement, during which it took important decisions regarding the integration of the Maoist combatants.
In the report, he mentioned that dual security to the Maoist combatants had been removed and that 62 weapons and equal number of combatants had already returned to the cantonments.
It also stated that the AISC had started recruitment of 120 staff and that the monitors would soon reach the cantonments.
On Wednesday, the first meeting of the monitoring committee, which is headed by Speaker Subas Nemwang, had decided to instruct the AISC to furnish the progress report on army integration, and decided summoned the PM to the meeting.
PM Khanal submitted the 'progress report' despite the AISC not being able to meet to work out the modality of army integration. It has already missed the deadline for deciding the modality.
Meanwhile, today's meeting of the parliamentary monitoring committee also decided to call UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala in the next meeting to discuss the implementation of the agreement. nepalnews.com
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