By Our Reporter
Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli last week objected to the joint-statement of the United Nations and Kathmandu-based diplomats terming it as a product of an unnecessary alliance and asked them not to do so.
"Nepal has completed the peace process, but I was surprised to see the haste of some of the missions and diplomats in Kathmandu. There is no such need to issue a joint-statement on our internal issue," he said while speaking at a reception organised in Zurich, Switzerland, by the Embassy of Nepal in Geneva on Friday.
"Why should any other country make comments about it? Is the conflict management a bad job?" he asked and advised the ambassadors need not form any alliance against Nepal.
The Prime Minister made these remarks while responding to the joint statement issued by the United Nations in Nepal and diplomatic missions of Australia, Germany, European Union, Finland, France, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America in Kathmandu on Thursday asking the government to clarify its plans in public to take the transitional justice process forward in 2019.
"Noting the looming expiration of the mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission for the Investigation of the Enforced Disappearances, as well as the upcoming fourth anniversary of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that affirmed certain requirements for transitional justice processes, we encourage the government to clarify to the public its plans to take the transitional justice process forward in 2019," read the statement.
The statement came at a time when the tenure of the two commissions was expiring in a couple of weeks.
Prime Minister Oli said that the war had ended and the conflict was managed. “There could be some wounds yet to be healed, and Nepal was capable to resolve its internal matter.”
He urged all to side with peace and not to scratch the wounds of the conflict but to administer ointment on the bruises. "We expect the same from our friends as well," he said.
The Prime Minister said that the international community had exhibited an ideological bias against the government as it was formed by a communist party that achieved a landslide victory in the elections.
"I would like to tell our foreign friends that some trends come to notice due to their ideological bias. If you put off the ideological lens, you will see that we have achieved extraordinary results. The world can learn from our unique management of the peace process. The country is on the positive path of development," said Prime Minister Oli.
Earlier on Thursday, Minister for Communication and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota said that the management of the peace process was Nepal's own agenda and no one needed to make any recommendation on it.
"Issues of armed-conflict will be resolved with due attention. The government will follow the rules and procedures to make any decision regarding the peace process management," Baskota said while speaking at the press meet organised to make the cabinet decision public.
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