Nepal's foreign ministry yesterday dismissed as "irrelevant" a UN report documenting thousands of cases of human rights violations dur-ing a decade-long civil war.

The 233-page document, titled the "Nepal Conflict Report", was published on Monday and detailed crimes committed by all parties during the Himalayan nation's decade-long civil war that ended in 2006.

The report criticised Nepalese authorities for failing to bring to justice perpetrators of thousands of serious rights violations during the conflict which killed than 16,000 people and left more than 1,000 missing.

Nepal's foreign ministry said the report's conclusions were "out of context and irrelevant".

The document was "prepared without proper consultation with the stakeholders," the ministry said.

The ministry said the government's had asked the United Nations not to publish the report, adding that the country had initiated its own justice process to deal with the rights violations.

The former rebels, who now lead a caretaker administration, signed a peace accord with the government in November 2006.

Most of the rights violations listed in the report are linked to forced disappearances, executions and arbitrary detentions, as well as torture and sexual violence.