ICDC to submit proposed constitution

KATHMANDU, Aug 9 - The Interim Constitution Draft Committee (ICDC) is set to submit its draft constitution to the talks teams by Wednesday evening.
In spite of repetitive requests to the parties and Maoists, since none could arrive at common consensus on the issues of interim legislature, constituent assembly process, arms management and other political issues, the ICDC decided to submit the draft constitution handing over these issues to be resolved by the talks teams themselves.
A member of the ICDC Sindhu Nath Pyakurel informed that though decision on some issues were still due to be made, preparations were on to submit the draft constitution to the talks teams by today evening. However he didn't clarify the unresolved issues. The committee has mentioned that there would be a "single-house" interim legislature, in the draft constitution. However, it does not detail on its infrastructure and the number of members that it comprises. Similarly, it is known that only theoretical aspects of interim government and constituent assembly structure and process are included in the draft constitution.
In the proposed constitution, the state of the monarch is left as it is for now with a provision that the final verdict on this would be made by people themselves through constituent assembly elections.
Posted on: 2006-08-09 01:56:14 (Server Time)