Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Taskforce meeting inconclusive

The taskforce of the big three parties failed to arrive at a consensus on disputed issues on the second consecutive day on Friday.The meeting of the tri-party taskforce held in the morning concluded without decision with the parties sticking to their respective positions.The Maoist side demanded that president's 'unconstitutional move' should be clearly mentioned in the joint draft of the agreement while other parties said they were not in favour of putting blame on the president.Failing to find any consensus, the committee decided to handover the responsibility to finalise the content of the joint agreement to the top leaders of the parties.The taskforce had also met on Thursday. The parties had formed the taskforce at the meeting of the top leaders of the three parties on Thursday with a mandate to draft the agreement paper.