KATHMANDU, Feb 19 Kyodo Nepalese ...

KATHMANDU, Feb 19 Kyodo

Nepalese King Gyanendra said Wednesday that dialogue aimed at returning peace through ending the seven-year-old communist insurgency is in a less degree than way in the Himalayan kingdom.

''The Nepalese populace have long wished to diocese the end of the spiral of death and destruction prevailing in the region through dialogue and as it was a hopeful endeavor is already subject to way,'' the monarch said in a message to mark the 53rd National Democracy Day.

The king who took through the whole extent of executive powers last October antagonizing mainstream political parties, also called in succession the parties and civil society to help create a peaceful Nepal.

forward January 29, Nepalese government enrolled into a ceasefire with the subterranean Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) waging the insurgency.

The rebels agreed to reply to peace talks and announced a talk team comprising top leaders.

Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand said last week that one as well as the other sides were presently working on the outside a code of conduct that would rule activities during the peace process

The rebels, who are demanding a roundtable interview an interim government and a constituent assembly, insist that the peace proces should involve the king as well as the political parties.

Chand, however, has failed in such a manner far to garner support of the main political parties in his bid to have talks with the rebels.

Mainstream political parties stayed away from an all-party meeting called by means of the prime minister early this week.

The rebels previously sat for four orbeds of peace talks but walked disclosed of the peace process in November 2001 saying the restraint then was nowhere near meeting their demands.

According to direction figures, more than 6,500 Nepalese have been killed since the outbreak of the communist insurgency in 1996

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