Kathmandu, February 9
Visiting Deputy Vice-president of Millennium Challenge Corporation Jonathan Brooks today held high-level meetings, including with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, where he majorly discussed the status of parliamentary endorsement of the MCC Nepal Compact agreement.
Brooks is also learnt to have communicated to the Nepali side that amendments to the agreement were not possible at this point of time.
A section of the ruling Nepal Communist Party has taken strong stand against endorsing the agreement in its present form. They have said it can be implemented after amending a few ‘contentious’ provisions.
However, the US side has been maintaining the agreement could have been amended had it been in the negotiation phase.
The agreement was signed in September 2017 after two years of negotiations from 2015 to 2017. They have said since the agreement had already been signed, there were no provisions for an amendment.
The agreement is currently being studied by a taskforce led by NCP Secretariat member Jhalanath Khanal. The taskforce has Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali and NCP Standing Committee member Bhim Rawal as members
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