On June 25, 2008, after the country was declared a republican state, the political parties and the Maoists signed an agreement to complete the integration process and manage their weapons “within six months at the maximum.”[break]
After that agreement, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal became the prime minister replacing then NC President Girija Prasad Koirala from the helm.
The agreement states that the Special Committee for the Integration and Rehabilitation of the Maoist combatants would be created within 15 days of the formation of the Maoist-led government, and the work on the integration process would begin immediately. “The state would not take any responsibility of the combatants who have not been integrated [into the state security forces] or rehabilitated after six months,” the agreement states.
But Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government could not make any significant progress on the integration process in its nine-month term.
In the four-point deal on the last four-month term extension of the UNMIN (UN peace mission) in last September, the then Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Dahal agreed that the pending issues of the peace process, mainly the rehabilitation process, would be completed in four months starting September 15, before UNMIN packed up in on January 15.
But the process did not make any headway.
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