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O 142159Z JAN 09
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TO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 4509
INFO UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE
RUEHKT/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU IMMEDIATE 2239
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI IMMEDIATE 2298

UNCLAS STATE 003916 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNSC UNMIN PGOV NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL: INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNMIN MANDATE RENEWAL 
 
¶1. The Department instructs USUN to draw on the following 
points for use during 
the discussion of the Secretary General's report on the UN 
Mission to Nepal (UNMIN) scheduled to take place on Friday, 
January 
¶16. 
 
¶2. Begin points: 
 
-- I would like to welcome SRSG Martin back to the Council 
and thank him for his report. 
 
-- We recognize that UNMIN's role in monitoring compliance 
with the Agreement on Monitoring the Management of Arms 
and Armies and supporting the Joint Monitoring 
Coordinating Committee remains crucial as Nepalese leaders 
work to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the 
CPA, and to proceed with the drafting of a new 
constitution. 
 
-- We remain concerned, however, regarding the lack of 
progress in key areas of CPA implementation. 
 
-- Of particular concern is the lack of progress regarding 
the Special Committee, which is charged under the interim 
constitution with integration and rehabilitation of Maoist 
army combatants and supervision of the government and 
Maoist armies pending determination of a final program of 
military integration and rehabilitation.  The committee 
was named on the eve of the Secretary General's arrival in 
Nepal in October, but has yet to begin work.  The 
functioning of the Special Committee is essential to the 
Council's objective, underlined in the previous mandate 
renewal resolution of phasing out its monitoring 
responsibilities and reducing the number of arms monitors. 
 
-- We are also concerned with the situation of minors 
remaining in the cantonments.  In early December, the 
Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the commander of 
the Maoist People's Liberation Army committed to the UN 
Secretary General's Special Representative for Children in 
Armed Conflict to complete the discharge of nearly 3,000 
minors 
identified by UNMIN from the 
cantonments by the end of February, but the Government of 
Nepal appears to 
have made no progress in this regard. 
 
-- The Government of Nepal appears to have also made 
no progress in removing roughly 1,000 other persons from the 
cantonments whom UNMIN also determined were not combatants. 
 
-- We urge Nepalese leaders to focus on these and other 
issues vital to the implementation of the peace process, 
including the standing up of the Disappearances 
Commission. 
 
-- The Government of Nepal should not expect that UNMIN 
will be extended indefinitely if the government does not 
take the essential steps necessary to move the peace 
process forward. 
 
-- The United States will continue to work closely with the 
Government of Nepal and the international community to 
promote our objectives of peace, stability and prosperity in 
Nepal.  The concerns we have raised here notwithstanding, The 
United States is pleased by the immense progress the 
Government and people of Nepal have made, and will continue 
to support them as they work to complete the peace process 
and work to complete Nepal's new constitution. 
 
End points. 
RICE