The cabinet will meet again on Tuesday evening to take decision on the matter, according to spokesperson and minister for information and communication Shankar Pokharel.[break]
A probe by the State Affairs Committee of the parliament found that sub-standard APCs were procured and the committee wrote the government to immediately make available new APCs.
“The cabinet discussed how to move forward and seriously discussed the ways to send new APCs to the peacekeepers,” Pokharel said after the meeting.
The government is under pressure to supply APCs to the peacekeepers at the earliest as they have been working without APCs for long after the previously supplied APCs were obsolete and substandard. The UN has already cautioned the government that the Nepali mission could be declared non-funcational if the blue helmets are not provided APCs at the earliest.
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