'Army integration on the basis of political consensus'

KATHMANDU, March 20: Spokesperson of the PLA combatants Chandra Prakash Khanal has said army integration process will not move ahead sans political agreement among the parties.



Releasing a memoir written by PLA Commander of 5th Division Raj Bahadur Budha in the capital on Sunday, Khanal said the task of army integration and constitution writing will be completed within two months if the parties forge consensus.



He said the UCPN (Maoist) has proposed three modalities-- separate force of PLA combatants, mixed force by adjusting all security forces and unit to unit army integration-- for the completion of the army integration process.



He said the parties have not discussed in other modalities than the three proposals floated by the Maoists.



He said the statement of the Nepal Army that the PLA combatants can be integrated only on the basis of NA´s established standards was inappropriate.



On the occasion, Budha said he has depicted the memoirs of decade long war vividly in the book.



Commenting on the newly released book, Prof Dr Jagadishchandra Bhandari and Prof Dr Nandis Adhiakri said this is a new kind of book based on the chronological development of the people´s war.

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