Quote Unquote (Spotlight Weekly)

"Our first priority for the peace talks is the humanitarian issue."

Narayan Singh Pun, Minister for Housing and Physical Planning and coordinator of the peace talks with Maoists, in Kantipur Daily.

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"The dialogue [with the Maoists] will not be affected by the murder of Krishna Mohan Shrestha, chief of Armed Police Force."

Dharma Bahadur Thapa, Home Minister, in Spacetime Daily.

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"The CPN-UML was always in confusion between struggle or reconciliation."

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, senior leader of Unified Marxist-Leninist, in Kathmandu Post.

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"I'm confident that K.P. Sharma Oli will withdraw his dissenting statute."

Bharat Mohan Adhikari, senior leader of Unified Marxist-Leninist, in Spacetime Daily.

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"This government, too, is a multiparty government, except that it doesn't include the two larger parties. The government is already on its way to fulfilling the objectives for which it was formed. Hence, a change of government is out of the question."

Kuber Sharma, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, in Kantipur Daily.

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"I hope the [government-Maoist] dialogue will not turn out to be a case of getting a rat after digging a mountain."

Girija Prasad Koirala, president of Nepali Congress, in Himalaya Times.

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"All skepticism should be cleared, and an honest agreement should be made to keep peace.

Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of Unified Marxist-Leninist, in Gorkhapatra Daily.

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"I don't believe a round-table conference will find any solution to the country's problems."

Sher Bahadur Deuba, president of Nepali Congress (Democratic), in Kathmandu Post.

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