Given UNMIN's inability to enforce the terms and conditions of Nepal's "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" and the "Agreement on the Monitoring of the Management of Arms and Armies," a timely re-visit of the systemic shortcomings in UNMIN's mandate becomes necessary.
Catalogued below are posts on NepaliPerspectives that chronicle UNMIN's lackluster performance in Nepal and ideas on how such deficiencies may be remediated.
- UNMIN's Arms Verification Process in Nepal - More Timely Information and Transparency Needed
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/07/unmin-in-over-its-head-in-nepal-arms.html
- UNMIN Clarifies its Role but Just in Time to be Humiliated by the Maoists
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/06/unmin-clarifies-its-role-but-just-in.html
- UN Fast Losing Credibility in Nepal
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/03/un-fast-losing-credibility-in-nepal.html
- The UN and Maoist Arms Controversy: Overkill or Negligence?http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-and-maoist-arms-controversy-overkill.html
- Discrepancies in Maoist Weapons Inventoried by UNMIN – Do the Math
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/02/discrepancies-in-maoist-weapons.html
- Summary of Declared (by State) vs. Inventoried (by UNMIN), Weapon Counts
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2007/02/symmary-of-declared-by-state-vs.html
- Words for the Wise on the Management of Insurgent Arms
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2006/11/words-for-wise-on-management-of.html
- Thoughts on the UN Secretary General’s Envoy, Ian Martin’s Proposition
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2006/12/thoughts-on-un-secretary-generals-envoy.html
- Nepal's Challenging Road to Peace: Cautiously Optimistic but Seriously Concerned (2/6)
http://nepaliperspectives.blogspot.com/2006/08/nepals-challenging-road-to_115518358698784571.html
4 comments:
Regarding the subject posting on UNMIN, I think the party to be taken to task is the UN as a whole, not UNMIN. The latter is just a political mission sanctioned by the Security Council. No point in shooting the messenger. Martin does seem to lack the drive and acumen required for sensitive political work. But who sent him? The SG. The UN needs to take the situation in Nepal seriously before it gets out of hand.
Never trust UN- for one they are here not to solve the issue, second they do not have any stake in this place. So no stake and resolve means rentseeking, thats about it.
DOA
not only inability but lack of interest
There should be no surprise in this. Ian Martin should immediately resign and the UN should appoint someone who does not have a bias towards the Maoists immediately.
Or else, Nepal will be back to war within one month.
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