The United Nations (UN) Tuesday sent its envoy to Nepal to discuss the peace process with the new government of Nepal.

Tamrat Samuel, director for Asia and the Pacific Division Department of Political Affairs at the UN, arrived in Kathmandu Tuesday to hold consultations with the main political figures, the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) said.

Samuel will meet Nepal's new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Tuesday as well as Girija Prasad Koirala, president of Nepali Congress (NC), the second largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA) that has joined the coalition government but still remains deadlocked over the issue of the distribution of ministries.

He will also hold talks with former prime minister Prachanda, whose Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) has begun protests against the new government and the president.

Prachanda resigned from the post of the prime minister on May 4, while M.K. Nepal was sworn in on May 25.

On the eve of Samuel's arrival, the UN said it had launched a "Jobs for Peace" project, which will see the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) help 12,500 youths from Parsa and Rautahat, two districts in the impoverished southern plains, find jobs.

Source: Xinhua