Nepal parliament seeks ceasefire

THE newly-recalled Nepalese Parliament called yesterday for a ceasefire with communist rebels and elections for an assembly to rewrite the constitution.

New Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and the legislators urged negotiations with the Maoist rebels who played a key role in protests that forced the king to give up power last week.

Mr Koirala’s new government was sworn in earlier in the day and now must spell out the dates and other details of the talks and the constitutional assembly.