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Senior UN official to visit Nepal amid escalating political tensions

Xinhua, January 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Amid political tensions escalating in Nepal, UN Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman will be arriving in Kathmandu Thursday on a three-day visit, officials said.

Tara Prasad Pokharel, spokesman of Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Xinhua Wednesday that the high-level UN official is scheduled to hold meetings with Nepal's leaders.

The visit comes at a time when ruling and the agitating Madhesi parties are intensely engaged in negotiations to end the anti-constitution protests.

The protests have been on for three and a half months in the southern plains of the Himalayan country bordering India.

Over 50 people including ten police personnel were killed during the anti-constitution protests launched by Madhesi parties in Nepal in recent months.

Earlier, the United Nations had expressed concern over the political tensions in Nepal.

In a press release in November last year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all sides to lift border obstruction without further delay.

The UN chief had also underlined Nepal's rights of free transit as a landlocked nation as well as for humanitarian reasons. Endit