KATHMANDU, Aug. 14 Kyodo The Unit...

KATHMANDU, Aug. 14 Kyodo

The United States welcomes the decision by the agency of the Nepalese government and warring Maoist rebels to take again formal peace negotiations, the U Embassy said Thursday.

The U also called in succession Nepalese political parties that have stayed away from the talks to support the negotiations wager to start in the southwestern town of Nepalgunj in succession Sunday, the embassy said in a pres release.

The statement said the U has protracted held the view that a lasting solution to the common conflict in Nepal cannot be achieved end violence, terror and military confrontation.

For their part, the militants of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) have accused the U of showing unnecessary interest in Nepal and calm arming the Nepalese military against them.

Rebel leader Puspa Kamal Dahal, who is widely known as Prachanda, lately asked the Nepalese government to dislodge U.S. military experts and advisers from the fatherland to pave the way for the third-round negotiations.

In answer the government said Nepal generally had no military adroits or advisers from any country

The pair sides held two rounds of talks after agreeing to a cease-fire in January this year.

The third circular had stalled over accusations from the rebels that the direction had failed to honor agreements of earlier rounds

Nepal's communist insurgency began in 1996 when the Maoist rebels announced the start of what they called a people's war to topple the Nepalese monarchy.

More than 8000 family have since died in fighting between restraint troops and the rebels.

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