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SG/SM/10243

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE EXTENSION BY NEPAL COMMUNIST PARTY

02/12/2005
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10243
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE EXTENSION BY NEPAL COMMUNIST PARTY


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General welcomes the news that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has decided to extend by one month the unilateral ceasefire that it had declared in September.  It will be recalled that the Secretary-General had recently called for an extension and urged His Majesty’s Government of Nepal to reciprocate the ceasefire.


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