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Formal Nepali truce accord to get ready by Monday

AFP, Kathmandu
Nepal's government and Maoist rebels will have a formal agreement on their month-old ceasefire ready by early next week, despite disagreements over the release of prisoners and anti-terror laws, an official said Saturday.
Government negotiator Narayan Singh Pun, the minister for physical planning and works, met Saturday for a third day with Dina Nath Sharma and Krishna Bahadur Mahara, members of the rebels' self-styled politburo.
"We're working hard on reaching a memorandum of understanding, which should be ready by Monday," Pun told reporters.
The formal agreement on the truce is considered vital before the two sides can begin formal negotiations.
The Maoists and the government reached a ceasefire January 29 that ground to a halt the violence that has left more
than 7,800 people dead since 1996.
But the two sides have been at odds on several points of the ceasefire, particularly an agreement to release thousands of prisoners taken during the conflict.
A Maoist source told AFP that the rebels were collecting information on the estimated 180-plus civilians held by guerrillas around the country.
"We believe there may also be about 5,000 Maoists in police custody or jails," he said.
The memorandum of understanding could clear up the dispute over the prisoners, although a marathon cabinet session addressed by Pun on Friday did not set a date for the release of the detained rebels.
Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand's cabinet made no comment on the withdrawal of anti-terror laws that give authorities broad powers to detain Maoist suspects and impose curfews.
The Maoists want the measures repealed before talks. The law had been enacted for two years by parliament after the last ceasefire collapsed in November 2001.
But King Gyanendra dissolved the parliament in June 2002, and three-and-a-half months later dismissed elected premier Sher Bahadur Deuba. Chand is due to serve until a new election is held, but no date has been set.
It remains unclear how the anti-terror laws could be repealed in the absence of parliament.
Former premier Girija Prasad Koirala, whose Nepali Congress was the largest party in the last parliament, said it was possible the House of Representatives could be reconvened.
That brought an angry rebuke from the Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist, which was in opposition and would prefer new elections.