US and India to work to strengthen democracy in Nepal

Washington, May 27 (UNI) The United States and India have agreed to support the new G P Koirala government in Nepal and renew efforts to strengthen Nepalese democracy, according to State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

He was replying to a question on whether Nepal figured in the recent meeting between Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran in London recently.

He also said that ''they (India and the US) were also going to call upon the Maoists to cease violent activity and to work to become part of the political process, a peaceful political process. So I think that really India and the U S are of the same mind on this issue,'' he added.

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