New Delhi: Nepali leaders have finalised an interim Constitution. Top leaders of the ruling alliance, including Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist leader Prachanda signed the document.
The Maoists will be represented in the provisional parliament and government.
Earlier, Koirala separately held discussions with CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and the President of Nepali Congress-Democratic, Sher Bahadur Deuba to speed up the process.
According to analysts, the monarch had no choice but to accept the decision. However, Maoists were upbeat on the decision.
The ruling party and rebel leaders had been meeting over the past few days to work out the differences over the interim constitution.
Their main disagreements had been over the rebels' wishes to include education, health care and employment as fundamental rights. The status of those issues was not immediately clear on Saturday.
"Now there is a guarantee that elections for the constituent assembly will be held on the basis of this constitution," chief rebel negotiator Krishna Bahadur Mahara told to a news agency.
The government and rebels signed a peace accord last month that would see thousands of rebel fighters confined in UN-monitored camps and their weapons locked up.
The rebels began fighting in 1996 for a communist state. In April this year, they declared a cease-fire and began peace talks with the government.
(With agency inputs)
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