ISAS Briefs

Following the 5-point Agreement, on 29 May 2011, Nepal's main political parties - the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-Maoist), the Nepali Congress, and the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist - agreed to extend the Constituent Assembly (CA) by another three months. The promulgation of the constitution is seen as an important step forward in the country's struggle to facilitate a peace process. More importantly, the state restructuring process on the basis of ethnic parameters threatens to endanger national cohesion.