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Article: Roundup: Nepal Ratifies Treaty with India
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 21, 1996
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The Nepali parliament has finally ratified the Mahakali border
river treaty with India with an overwhelming majority vote after
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one week of prolonged and heated debate in and outside parliament.
A joint meeting of the upper and lower houses Friday endorsed the
Mahakali treaty by a vote of 220 to 8 in the 265-seat parliament.
The voting took place last night as the main opposition Communist
Party of Nepal (united Marxist Leninist, CPN-UML) did not make its
final decision to support the treaty until the evening.
CPN-UML, the single largest party in the parliament, holds the key
to the fate of the treaty with its total of 101 MPs in both houses.
The joint parliament meeting started about ...