CPN (US) chair Nepal rules out advancement of MCC compact

KATHMANDU: CPN (Unified Socialist) chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal has reiterated that the US government's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact could not be ratified in its present status. Claiming that there remain some doubts regarding the MCC, the former Prime Minister said Nepal has adopted non-aligned policy as its foreign policy and the country should not be a battleground under any pretexts. He was addressing an event organised in Kathmandu to welcome people who defected various other parties into the CPN (US). The party was actively working for the welfare of people and society and advancing towards socialism, he maintained. Claiming that the coalition parties in the incumbent government time and again discussed the continuation of the alliance until three-level of elections, he directed party leaders and cadres to unite against regressive forces and confidently join their duty. Meanwhile, sister organisations of the CPN (US) on Sunday staged nationwide protests demanding amendment to the MCC agreement for the national interest. "The project is not in the interest of the nation. So we demanded that it should not be advanced," said Jagannath Khatiwada, chief of the party publicity department. READ ALSO:

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