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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, ''disturbed'' by means of heaving fighting in Nepal, is calling upon the Nepalese government and the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) to immediately extreme point fighting and resume the peace proces a UN spokesman said Tuesday.

''The secretary general does not believe there is a military solution to the conflict,'' the United Nations spokesman said.

The spokesman's make notes came after Annan issued a statement Monday night saying he was ''disturbed from the recent escalation of fighting in Nepal, where the continued instability and conflict is having an increasingly devastating impact forward the lives of ordinary people''

''Civilian casualties and serious human rights violations are a routine incident and the country's economic and social unravelling is being seriously hampered,'' Annan said in the statement.

Annan said he ''continues to be available to assist the search for a solution in any manner the parties consider useful,'' the spokesman added.

forward Sunday, the Royal Nepalese Army claimed to have killed more than 500 rebels in a firefight with Maoist insurgents in Myagdi district of central Nepal that began late Saturday night. ''We inflicted the largest-ever los in succession the rebels this time,'' an army spokesman said.

The rebels have been waging an insurrection in Nepal for eight years, seeking to topple monarchy and settle up a republican state in the kingdom.

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