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Nepal forms post-royal govt under Maoist PM

AFP, Kathmandu
Nepal swore in its first post-royal government Friday with Maoist leader Prachanda as prime minister, ending weeks of political deadlock.
The Maoists -- who waged a decade-long insurgency until a 2006 peace deal -- emerged as Nepal's most potent political force after convincingly winning landmark polls in April.
Prachanda led the oath-taking where new ministers pledged "to remain faithful to the nation and my countrymen."
The ultra-leftist Maoists, centreleft Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and another political group formed an alliance and agreed on distribution of ministerial posts.
Politicians from the UML did not swear in after an 11 th hour disagreement over who would be deputy prime minister, a Maoist official said.
"We will extend the ministerial cabinet after the prime minister returns from his Beijing- visit. Members from the UML will get sworn in then," Maoist spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara told AFP
Prachanda was due to fly to Beijing on Saturday and make his first foray on* the international stage to attend the Olympics closing ceremony and meet Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The formation of the government follows the Himalayan country's abolition of its unpopular 240-year-old monarchy two months ago after the Maoists won just over a third of the seats in the new constitutional assembly.
Under the agreement clinched after a week of negotiations, the Maoists will head the defence and finance ministries, with the UMI party taking the home ministry portfolio.
The foreign ministry will be run by Upendra Yadav, leader of the Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum, the third party in the Maoist-led alliance.
Among the pressing issues facing the Maoist-led government are drafting a new constitution for the world’s youngest republic, swiftly tackling crippling fuel and food shortages, and land reform.
"Our first priority’ would be to provide adequate supplies of basic necessities from food to fuel. We also will look forward to give security to the people." Barsha Man Pun. a Maoist leader, told AFP
The Maoists in their election campaign said they would push forward with a radical reform programme in one of the world’s poorest countries, which is desperate for financial aid to help it recover from the civil war that devastated the economy.
The Maoist-led government will create a ministerial body to address the fate of 19,000 Maoist guerrillas confined to camps as part of the 2006 peace deal. A major challenge will be how to implement plans to integrate the rebels into the army.
The government will also have to take on deteriorating law and order across the country, particularly in the southern Terai region, where violent unrest has simmered for two years.
Prachanda, a nom-de-guerre meaning "the fierce one," was sworn in as prime minister last week, finalising his transformation from warlord to the country's most powerful politician.
The former school teacher led a decade-long insurgency against the monarchy that claimed at least 13,000 lives before signing up for peace and vowing to renounce