Visiting Chinese envoys urged Nepalese politicians to complete the peace process and constitution drafting Saturday - in the first major visit by a Chinese delegation since 2006. Nepal has been under a caretaker government since June, when Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned under Maoist pressure, dpa reported. Seven rounds of parliamentary voting have proved inconclusive in picking a new executive head. The 21 member Chinese team arrived in the Nepalese capital early Saturday for a week-long visit. The team is headed by He Yong, Secretary at the Secretariat of Central Committee of Communist Party of China. The delegation held separate meetings with the Maoist and the Nepali Congress party, late Saturday. "We discussed Nepal's peace process, constitution-drafting and Nepal-China relations," said Maoist leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who attended the meeting. "They assured Nepal of support to complete the constitution- writing and the peace process." The visiting envoys were received by the leaders of the three major Nepalese political parties, the Maoists, the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxists Leninists (UML), upon their arrival, early Saturday. The Chinese delegation will also meet caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and President Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday. The visit comes in the backdrop of a fragile political situation in Nepal.
