NEPALGUNJ, Nepal, Aug. 19 Kyodo T...

NEPALGUNJ, Nepal, Aug. 19 Kyodo

The Nepalese management and Maoist rebel delegates conclud their latest rotund of peace negotiations Tuesday in western Nepal without any breakthrough in succession the key rebel demand that the king's powers be curtailed.

In a joint statement issued at the extreme point of the three-day negotiations, the pair sides agreed to meet again for a fourth rotund in the near future

''The rebels insisted forward their demand for a constituent assembly to draw a just discovered constitution, but we argued that the existing constitution would accommodate the political reforms sought through the rebels,'' chief conduct negotiator and Finance Minister Prakash Chandra Lohani told reporters relating to returning from the remote village of Hapure, where the sum of two units sides debated the issue.

''We steady offered to rewrite the existing constitution, moreover failed to harmonize our positions,'' he said.

Lohani said the government's dialogue with the rebels will continue, and facilitators will within single week work out the date and venue for the nearest round.

The third spherical of negotiations had opened Sunday with the control replying to the rebels' political demands, which included elections of an assembly or house to draw up a recently made known constitution for Nepal to replace the existing common that provides for constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy.

They want the of recent origin constitution to further limit the king's powers.

The rebels took up arms in 1996 and reached a cease-fire agreement with the restraint in January this year.

More than 8000 Nepalese -- rebels, police, sway troops, and civilians -- have died in the fighting.

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