Transitional justice mechanism meeting ends inconclusively

The meeting of the transitional justice mechanism held on Monday ended inconclusively.  

The meeting held at the Ministry of Home Affairs at Singha Durbar this morning in participation of the stakeholders including the members of the mechanism ended without making a concrete decision.

Nepali Congress leader and Minister for Home Affairs Ramesh Lekhak, CPN-UML Chief Whip Mahesh Bartaula and CPN (Maoist Center) Deputy General Secretary Janardan Sharma attended the meeting aimed at finalizing the issue of the transitional justice bill.

UML Chief Whip Bartaula said that today's meeting ended with the decision to meet again on Thursday.

"The main Act, bills and reports of sub-committees on transitional justice related issues will be studied and reviewed. The questions raised on them will be collected and the next meeting will be held Thursday with full preparations," he pledged.

He said that the mechanism will also prepare the draft of all discussions held so far on the matter and focus on them in upcoming meetings, he said.

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, President of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee Bimala Subedi and Attorney General Ramesh Badal among others were present in the meeting.

Earlier on Friday, a meeting of the mechanism held at the Ministry of Home Affairs had discussed the issue of building consensus on the transitional justice bill.