The Maoist standing committee meeting Saturday morning also condemned the "arms import in secret from India". "It is a blatant violation of the CPA," Maoist leader Barshaman Pun told myrepublica.com. [break]
Countering the government claim that the arms were for the police force and so it doesn´t violate the CPA, Pun said the CPA also doesn´t state clearly that arms and ammunition can be imported for the police force.
"The government should have consulted us if the security agencies were really in need of weapons. The arms were brought to Nepal via the Sunauli border point and transported to Kathmandu in the middle of the night, but the government lied to us. It is a dangerous breach of the CPA," he said.
He argued that the spirit of the CPA was that the government cannot import arms and ammunition, and that the government should have consulted the Maoists if the security forces were really running out of weapons. "But this was not done."
´Not in UNMIN brief´
United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) has called on the government and the Maoists not to involve themselves in any activities including making public statements against the peace process, but the UN body stated that investigation of the arms import doesn´t fall under its jurisdiction.
“Only the Agreement on the Management of Arms and Armies (AMAA) falls under UNMIN´s jurisdiction, not the CPA,” UNMIN Spokesperson Kosmos Biswokarma said Saturday. The provision of arms import has been codified in the CPA.
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