| Comes as a surprise, huh. |
KATHMANDU - A United Nations team reviewing NepalÂ’s electoral process in the run-up to key elections in November said Wednesday that the countryÂ’s security situation had not improved.
| Wanna bet the gummint's failings are splashed high and the murders committed by the Maoists are pretty much ignored? |
The UN comments came in a report by Electoral Expert Monitoring Team (EEMT) which was handed over to the Nepalese government and the countryÂ’s election commission. EEMT was in Nepal for its second visit in late July to early August.
‘The report details the findings of this second visit, with a mention that the security situation has not improved since the first visit in June,’ United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) said. ‘The EEMT states that establishing an adequate security environment for the Constituent Assembly election will depend not so much on the number of police or arms deployed, but on cooperation between political parties and clear instructions to their activists in the districts.’
The team also felt Nepalese press faced serious limitations in reporting and distributing newspapers, especially in the southern Nepalese plains known as Terai. |