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		<title>We regret rehab option attracted few combatants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 13&#8211;Germany has been very supportive of Nepal’s peace process. It has generously contributed to the Nepal Peace Trust Fund besides running education and skills training programme in both the cantonments and civilian areas. John Narayan Parajuli spoke to German Ambassador Verena Graefin von Roedern last week about her country’s perspective on Nepal’s peace process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=256&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The world is bigger than India and China</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/12/13/the-world-is-bigger-than-india-and-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi has been in Nepal for nearly two years. He came at a time of extreme political polarisation, but in the last three months, there has been a breakthrough in the peace and constitution-making process. He credits all the parties, not least the Maoists for playing a critical role. In over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=252&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maoists fear OHCHR-N could become ‘assertive’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Party desires ‘more’ amnesty Despises UN body’s ‘activism’ on emblematic cases John Narayan Parajuli &#38; Kamal Dev Bhattarai KATHMANDU, DEC 09 - With the term of the OHCHR-Nepal expiring on midnight Thursday, there is still a lot of confusion about whether the UN body remains functional for the next six months—an automatic ‘grace period’ that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=248&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Constructive ambiguity riddles Dahal’s paper</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/12/05/constructive-ambiguity-riddles-dahals-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An analysis of Dahal proposal submitted in the Maoists Central Committee submitted on July 17, 2011 that formed the basis for current Maoists policy on peace and constitution. The document was instrumental in bringing about a degree of clarity in Maoists approach.  This News analysis was first published in The Kathmandu Post on July 18, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=246&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Peaceful accommodation, not revolution, is real test&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/12/05/peaceful-accommodation-not-revolution-is-real-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is playing a key role in pushing peace and constitution process forward. Despite resistance from hardliners within his party, he has teamed up with Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai in implementing the Seven-Point Agreement, earning admiration from even his strongest critics. The regrouping process of the former combatants has just been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=241&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planning for post-transition</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/12/02/planning-for-post-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[constituion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the final six months extension of the Constituent Assembly on Tuesday (so the Supreme Court says, the parties aren’t convinced), the stage is set for the finale of the nearly six-year old peace process. Unlike past extensions, there was very little protest outside the CA premises against the extension this time—and it certainly didn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=239&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Conflict is the most expensive thing you can do&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/11/28/a-conflict-is-the-most-expensive-thing-you-can-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORWEGIAN Crown Prince Haakon was in Nepal this past week on a four-day visit as UNDP’s Goodwill Ambassador with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. With a degree in development studies, the heir to Norwegian throne is actively involved in promoting Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). During his stay in Nepal, he interacted with sexual minorities, addressed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=234&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Nepal holds a lot of promise’</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/11/25/nepal-holds-a-lot-of-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Helen Clark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And here is Nepal, between the two most dynamic economies on earth today. There have to be advantages of that&#8221; From The Kathmandu Post UNDP Administrator Helen Clark visited Nepal this week, the first chief of the organisation to do so in 25 years. She is also the first female Administrator of the UN agency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=231&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unleashing Saarc</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/11/17/unleashing-saarc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing geopolitics and the convergence of interests of both small countries and India could propel Saarc on the path of greater integration After nearly 26 years, Saarc member countries are finally making the right noises towards realising the long-term goal of a regional economic union. The 17th Saarc Summit stood out from previous onesfor clearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=226&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Infectious optimism</title>
		<link>http://johnparajuli.com/2011/11/15/221/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Narayan Parajuli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of rather optimistic articles on peace process Towards a finale Nov 2, 2011 After dithering for over three years, the major parties finally gave what they had promised—a breakthrough in the peace process and a genuine effort to restore the consensus mechanism on statute drafting and power-sharing. This is a landmark agreement and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnparajuli.com&amp;blog=645374&amp;post=221&amp;subd=johnparajuli&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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