The United Nations (UN) arms monitors are to start locking up Nepal Army's (NA) weapons at the Chhauni barrack, Kathmandu, from April 10, reported local newspaper The Kathmandu Post on Sunday.

A team comprising the UN arms monitors, NA representative and Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) will start storing NA weapons in numbers equivalent to the registered weapons of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), sources said. The NA's weapons will be locked in 14 storage containers.

The NA's weapons are being locked according to a tripartite agreement reached between the UN, the Nepali government and the CPN-M earlier.

The second phase verification of CPN-M arms and combatants will begin as soon as the storage process completes at the Chhauni barrack.

The UN Mission in Nepal had a few weeks earlier completed registration of CPN-M combatants and their weapons.

Source: Xinhua