Sunday, 10 July , 2005, 11:29
New Delhi: After sending a consignment of non-lethal defence equipment to Nepal, India on Sunday said the movement towards restoration of democracy in that country was 'not satisfactory' and further military supply would be under review.
'The situation in Nepal is the same. There is no improvement,' official sources said, a day after Shiv Shanker Mukherjee, India's Ambassador to the Himalayan Kingdom arrived to brief the government on the latest developments in that country.
Insisting that King Gyanendra, who seized power on February one, was not doing enough to restore democracy as promised to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Jakarta in May, sources said 'there is an unsatisfactory stalemate'.
They noted that a number of political prisoners have been released from jails recently but said not much is being done to lift curbs or holding of elections.
India has sent a consignment of non-lethal defence equipment to Nepal which 'was in the pipeline', the sources said.
The equipment is very crucial for the Nepal Army for its fight against Maoists, they said, indicating that there was no move to resume lethal supplies.
Mukherjee, who will be here for about a week, will brief the government about the latest situation in Nepal. He will meet External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and other senior officials of the External Affairs Ministry."
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