Kathmandu, February 29
Co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal today told mediapersons in Sindhupalchowk that if the United States did not agree to revise the Millennium Challenge Corporation programme, Nepal would not endorse it.
Dahal said MCC could be endorsed only as per the recommendations made by the NCP taskforce led by Jhalanath Khanal.
Dahal’s statement comes at a time when Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who has fallen in minority in the nine-member Secretariat, is trying to pass the MCC agreement with or without revision.
However, other party leaders, including Dahal, Khanal, Bhim Rawal and some for mer CPN-Maoist leaders are for endorsing the MCC only after revising it.
Those NCP leaders who want revision in the MCC say the agreement cannot be adopted in its present form because it undermines Nepal’s sovereignty and independence.
Speaking to journalists at Sikute, Sindhupalchowk, Dahal said he was not in favour of compromising national
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