Nepal's new president calls for end to political deadlock

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepal's first president on Sunday appealed for rival parties in the newly-republican nation to form a consensus government and end weeks of political deadlock, in his maiden address to the people.

"I hope the new government which is going to be formed soon will work in consensus and include all the political parties and bring policies and programmes that will benefit all," Ram Baran Yadav said in a televised address.

"We don't have any alternative other than maintaining our politics of consensus and reconciliation to bring the peace process to a logical conclusion," the new president said.

Nepal has been without a proper government since May 28, when a newly-elected assembly that will write a new constitution for the Himalayan country...