| June012007 | »Nepal bandh:Various ethnic groups ledby Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NFIN) announced Nepalbandh today. |  | June03
2007 | »Elections: The elections to a constituentassembly will take place in November 2007, the ruling party coalition said.The date of the vote has yet to be fixed. |
June08
2007 | »ULFA:The CPN (Maoist) has dismissed thestatement of a surrendered leader of the United Liberation Front of Assam(ULFA) that the Indian separatist outfit had links with Nepali Maoists. | | June14
2007 | »Peace Process:Former U.S. President JimmyCarter is visiting Nepal June 13-16 to encourage Nepal's political leadersto continue on the path to peace as they prepare to hold constituent assemblyelections later in 2007.
»Probe:OHCHR launch probe on the Maoistwing Young Communist League (YCL) leaders' killing.
»Arms registration:The UN has on 14 June2007 begun a further series of checks and verification procedures in orderto register and gather data on former Maoist rebel army personnel and theirweapons, said senior UN officials in Nepal.
»Order situation:Former U.S. PresidentCarter expressed concerns over the deteriorating law and order situationparticularly in the southern Nepalese plains as well as the activitiesof the Maoist aligned Young Communist League (YCL). |
June16
2007 | »Carter mission:Former U.S. PresidentCarter advocated that all UN states open communication lines with the formerMaoist rebels. This includes the US, which still regards the communistparty as a terrorist organisation.
»YCL extortions:Carter Centers observers,who had visited 70 out of Nepal's 75 districts, had brought back talesof the YCL extorting businessmen, assaulting members of other parties andrefusing to give up the public property they had forcefully captured duringthe 10-year insurgency. | | June22
2007 | »Integration:The government formed a specialcommittee to look after the integration procedures of the People's LiberationArmy (PLA) into the Nepal Army.
»Mines: Following a peace deal with Maoistinsurgents, Nepal now faces the formidable task of collecting and destroyingthousands of mines and explosives planted across the country during thedecade-long "People's War." According to MAG Mine Action Group (MAG, while142 civilians were injured or killed when they unknowingly activated IEDsor landmines in 2005, the figure rose to 169 in 2006. This January to May2007, 67 casualties were reported. |
June25
2007 | »Regional general strike:Maoists had calleda three-day banda following the killing of one of their cadres bymembers of the Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha- Goit faction in Saptaridistrict. Maoists torched four cargo vehicles. Cargo Transport Entrepreneurs'Association (CTEA) announced a indefinite stoppage of services across thecountry protesting against the incident.
»Election date: Thegovernment announced the date for the Constituent Assembly election inNepal, on 22 November 2007. | | June26
2007 | »Election date:UNMIN welcomes the announcementof a date for the Constituent Assembly election in Nepal, on 22 November2007. This is a critical step in the peace process, and indicates the strongcommitment of the political parties to work together to fulfill the historicpromise to the people of Nepal to form a democratically elected ConstituentAssembly.
»Monitoring Team:The United Nations ElectoralExpert Monitoring Team (EEMT), established under the mandate of the SecurityCouncil resolution 1740, left Nepal after completing the first of a numberof visits. |
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