There is progress in Nepal toward implementing a 2006 peace agreement ending its civil war though the Constituent Assembly working to do so is set to expire May 28, a senior State Department official said. “I don’t think anybody believes they’re going to meet that deadline, but they have made some important progress,” Robert Blake, assistant secretary of State, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, said at a May 24 Defense Writers Group breakfast. One of the key…
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