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UN mission completes assessment work in NepalMonday - 18th December 2006 |
| The United Nations (UN) technical assessment mission Sunday completed its assessment work on the requirements for monitoring personnel, logistical support and resources for the monitoring of arms and armies in Nepal. "The assessment mission has today completed its work, and I will be sending its report to the UN Headquarters, for the decision of the Secretary-General," Ian Martin, personal representative of the UN Secretary-General told a press conference here. The report will cover "detailed proposal" of the personnel, logistical support and resources required for the mission to monitor arms and armies, to provide electoral assistance and monitoring as well as to monitor human rights and other cease-fire agreements, he said. The mission's support requirements include their own "air assets" including helicopters for the monitors or concerned personnel to be able to travel to carry out investigations, Martin said. Likewise, it is for the UN Secretary-General to decide on the report, following which, he will present "his own report" before the UN Security Council proposing the new mission, Martin said. Similarly, 35 monitors of arms and armies will shortly arrive in the country, and the first group will be here within 10 days while the second group is expected to arrive by mid-January. Work will begin as soon as the first group arrives and the monitors will undergo three-day training and will start visiting the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)'s armed forces, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) cantonment sites and Nepal Army barracks and installations, said Martin. An expert who has experience of Afghanistan is expected to arrive on Monday. Meanwhile, the Joint Monitoring Coordination Committee, comprising of the Nepal Army, the PLA and Martin's team, led by General Jan Erik Wilhelmsen, held it first meeting on Sunday. "The tasks immediately ahead include further visits to the sites where weapons will be stored to determine the locations where the weapons containers will be located and where the monitoring personnel will be stationed, as well as visits to the PLA proposed satellite sites," Martin added. Martin's office is also "identifying" 25 electoral advisors who will begin arriving in the next few weeks. The advisors will be based at the national office of the election commission and the regions. |
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