10 days to Nepal’s Interim Constitution

Kathmandu: Nepal's interim Constitution would be promulgated in the next ten days for Maoists to join the Government.

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala assured top Maoist leaders that the interim Constitution would be announced within ten days, Maoist spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara said quoting Koirala, according to The Kathmadu Post.

Mahara reported that Koirala and Maoist Chief Prachanda also agreed to formulate necessary laws soon to conduct the constituent assembly election in June 2007 to rewrite the constitution.

Koirala had been asserting that unless the rebels' arms were managed, the interim Statute would not be announced.

The two leaders agreed to settle the key issues including interim Parliament, interim government and management of arms at the earliest, Mahara said.