MCC Vice President Brooks pays courtesy call on DPM Shrestha
KATHMANDU, May 20: A meeting was held between Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Vice President of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Jonathan Brooks on Saturday.
KATHMANDU, Aug 30: The Government of Nepal and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) have announced that the MCC Nepal Compact Program, which is going to be implemented jointly by the financial support of both, has entered the implementation phase.
The announcement was made
KATHMANDU, Feb 17: It has been learnt that the Prime Minister and President of Nepali Congress (NC) Sher Bahadur Deuba has granted three options to Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chairman of CPN (Maoist Center) regarding the ratification of the Millennium Corporate Challenge (MCC).
Dahal, who is the chairman of the key coalition partner of PM Deuba-led government, has opposed the government’s move to table the MCC in parliament for ratification.
Following the government’s decision to table the $500 million American grant in parliament, the two leaders have remained busy holding discussions and meetings.
The leaders hold a discussion on Wednesday and Thursday morning. During the meeting, after both leaders remained reluctant on their decision, PM Deuba granted Dahal three options.
Option 1
Help the government to create an environment for MCC ratification by not being present in parliamentry proceedings
Option 2
Vote against MCC ratification
Option 3
Withdraw MC’s support to government if it is necessary
The ruling Nepali Congress has remained confident that the MCC will be passed if it is successfully tabled in parliament.
KATHMANDU, December 21: The second meeting of the 10th ongoing House Session is scheduled for 1 PM today.
At the time when the Millennium Corporate Challenge (MCC) of the United States of America (USA) has created a buzz across the political arena of the country, the government-led by President of Nepali Congress and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is looking forward to ratify the $500 million compact through parliament.
At the present context, only the ruling Nepali Congress has expressed its will to pass the compact through parliament. NC’s coalition partners, CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and Rastriya Janamorcha Party, are all against the MCC which has also threatened the coalition government.
Even if the government is preparing to table the MCC in parliament, today's possible schedule of parliamentary meeting does not include the proceeding to table the MCC.
Meanwhile, the main opposition party, CPN-UML, has been continuously obstructing the House Sessions acquising Speaker of the lower House, Agni Prasad Sapkota of supporting Chairman of CPN (Unified Socialist), Madhav Kumar Nepal, to split the CPN-UML and register a new political party.
Even if PM Deuba is all in for ratification of the MCC from Parliament, he has failed to forge a common consensus within the ruling alliance.
A delegation from the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), led by Vice President of Compact Operations, Fatema Z. Sumar, departed Nepal yesterday after a four-day visit to discuss next steps to advance the ratification of the $500 million MCC-Nepal Compact. Sumar and Jonathan Brooks, MCC’s Deputy Vice President for Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and […]
A meeting has been held between Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Vice President of the Millennium Challenge Corporation Fatema Sumar at the former's residence in Kathmandu.
Fatema Z Sumar, the vice-president for the Department of Compact Operations of the United States government's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is visiting Nepal next week.
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