United Nations Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal Matthew Kahane Tuesday said that the current cease-fire agreement between the Nepali government and the guerrilla is too general and needs to include many specific provisions.

"It doesn't talk about the number of armies on both sides, who are commanding the armies, where the soldiers are kept, whether their uniform is identifiable or not, and who are actually in the armies etc. These issues haven't been mentioned," Kahane told a press conference in the capital.

He said that the agreement should be detailed to such an extent that it should talk about the numbers of guns, tagging those guns with numbers, keeping them inside an alarm enabled armour with as much as three keys, "two of them will be with the two sides and one will be with us."

He also said that disarmament is different than that of arms monitoring.

Two sides should agree on a joint commission where both are represented and that commission should jointly monitor the cease- fire agreement, Kahane stated.

He also mentioned that different people were expressing different views regarding the possible UN involvement in the Nepali peace process.

If both sides want UN involvement in the peace process, Kahane said, the world body would be very willing to provide assistance.

"First we will provide advice on how you write a cease-fire agreement," he said.

He added that his office was waiting for the Nepali government's official and written request for UN involvement.

"We need the Nepali government's letter as they are a member of the UN," he said.

Source: Xinhua