President Yadav dissatisfied with PM's series of foreign trips

 President Ram Baran Yadav (File photo)

via CAAI

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

President Ram Baran Yadav has expressed dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal for his series of foreign trips at a time when the nation is going through a difficult time, Annapurna Post daily reported.

At a meeting in Shital Niwas Monday, President Yadav advised PM Nepal to take initiative to forge consensus among the parties and end the political deadlock instead of focusing on foreign trips.

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal (File photo)

PM Nepal had gone to meet the President to apprise him of his trip to Cambodia to start Tuesday. He is leaving for Cambodia´s capital Phnom Penh Tuesday to attend the sixth International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

Soon after returning from Cambodia, PM Nepal is going to Belgium to chair a meeting of the Least Developed Countries (LDC)s. He had visited Russia last week for the Global Tiger Summit.

I had expected you would initiate dialogues among political parties and strive to end the ongoing political crisis after you returned from Russia, but then you are going on a foreign trip again, the President's press advisor quoted the President as saying.

At the meeting, President Yadav also asked PM Nepal about the government's position on calling a parliament session saying most of the political parties were in favour of calling the session soon.

In reply, PM Nepal said, there is no point in calling the parliament session without resolving the dispute among the parties outside the House. Speaker Subash Chandra Nemwang had also expressed dissatisfaction about the foreign trips of PM Nepal, senior UML leader KP Oli and UML chairman Jhala Nath Khanal, on Monday. nepalnews.com