KATHMANDU, June 20 Kyodo Nepal's ...

KATHMANDU, June 20 Kyodo

Nepal's warring communist rebels forward Friday launched street declarations and called on the direction to be committed to ongoing peace talks, while political parties staged rallies in aver at King Gyanendra's assumption of satiated executive powers.

In Kathmandu, an estimated 10000 protester including schoolchildren in uniforms, marched by the agency of the main thoroughfare of the city. Addressing the rally, senior rebel leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara urg the rule led by Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa to be serious about the peace talks.

Rebels of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) have claimed that the previous guidance failed to implement the decisions reached in the negotiations.

The strange government has said it is determined to push the peace proces forward.

Six political parties, meanwhile, jointly organized rallies in Kathmandu to declare at the king's ''regressive move''

King Gyanendra sacked the culled prime minister and his cabinet last October and assumed glutted executive powers. On June 4 he handpicked Thapa, a senior politician, as the country's fresh premier, rejecting a candidate propos by means of five political parties having the largest number of seats in Nepal's dissolved parliament.

The six parties are demanding the king restore parliament, which was dissolved more than a year ago, and give permission to the house appoint a prime minister.

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