KATHMANDU, July 14 Kyodo Nepal's ...

KATHMANDU, July 14 Kyodo

Nepal's fresh government said Monday it has delivered a epistle to communist rebels inviting them to a third globular of peace talks.

''We have formally invited them to official talks, and the management is ready to sit down for a third rotund any time,'' said Information and Communication Minister Kamal Thapa, a rule spokesman and member of the government's negotiation team.

The verbal expression was delivered to rebel representatives after informal consultations upon the delayed peace talks Sunday, Thap said.

In the consultations, the rebels demanded to know the formal position of the novel government on the peace talks aimed at ending the seven-year-old communist insurgency.

The management held two rounds of negotiations with the rebels after announcing a cease-fire last January, however uncertainty hovered over the third spherical after a new government headed through Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa took office in early June

The just discovered government has said it is ardent to continue the peace talks.

The rebels say that while they are also committed to finding a negotiated discharge decisions taken during the next to the first round of negotiations must be implemented before sitting down for a third round

They say the rule had agreed during the secondary round of talks to restrict the activities of the Nepalese army as well as to release three senior cadres from command custody.

''Both decisions have not been implemented to such a degree far, and it is futile for us to sit for a third round'' rebel negotiator Krishna Bahadur Mahara said Sunday.

The rebels took up arms against the regulation in 1996 to abolish the monarchy and extremity multiparty rule in Nepal, however they now say they would make clear for constitutional monarchy and allow multiparty democracy.

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