Nepali Gov't, Guerrillas to Hold Third Round of Peace Talks

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Nepali Gov't, Guerrillas to Hold Third Round of Peace Talks

The Nepali government and the anti-government guerrillas will hold their third round of peace talks on Sunday in Nepalgunj city in western Nepal, according to a government official.

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The Nepali government and the anti-government guerrillas will hold their third round of peace talks on Sunday in Nepalgunj city in western Nepal, according to a government official.

The Council of Ministers on Friday appointed Finance Minister Prakash Chandra Lohani as leader of the two-member government talks team, and Minister for Information and Communications Kamal Thapa as member secretary and spokesman of the team.

During the third round of peace talks with the guerrillas, the government side will put forward its political agenda, which integrates both national issues and the demands of the guerrillas as well as the major political parties in the country, The Rising Nepal newspaper on Saturday quoted Thapa as saying.

"This round of talks is likely to be multi-phased, because the political agenda is a complex issue and will be impractical to expect it to be resolved overnight," Thapa said, hinting that the talks will last for two or three days, but the government is not in favor of lingering the talks.

"The talks will not solve all the problems dogging the country,but it will at least be a milestone in finding a political way out of the problem of anti-government insurgency," he noted.

Two rounds of formal peace talks between the Nepali government and the anti-government guerrillas were held separately on Apr. 27and May 9 this year in Kathmandu in an attempt to end the seven-year-long insurgency which has claimed over 7,500 lives in the Himalayan kingdom.

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