US envoy in Nepal meets terror-listed Maoist leader
AFP, May, 2008
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KATHMANDU (AFP) — The United States ambassador to Nepal has met for the first time with the Maoist leader, the embassy said Friday, despite the former rebels still being on a US list of terrorist organisations.
"US Ambassador Nancy Powell met yesterday with Communist Party of Nepal Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal to discuss the outcome of the April 10 elections," a statement said.
Dahal, who goes by the name of Prachanda or the "fierce one," led the Maoists to a surprise victory in the elections to a 601-member body whose first job will be to abolish the world's last Hindu monarchy and then rewrite the constitution.
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The Maoists were placed on a list of US terrorist organisations in 2003, and are yet to be removed, despite winning more than a third of the seats in the assembly that will decide the aid-dependant country's political future. ...
