Nepal debate on safeguarding...

country to duly sign an agreement with another country to boost its national interest. But the political situation in Nepal seems to be much degraded since the time of BP Koirala. The political parties are functioning more like mere several political persons than institutionally successively representing Nepal’s legitimate defragmented interest. These political persons have interpreted Nepal’s national interest and nonalignment policy according to their felt need for expedient political benefit. MCC has to change colour due to these expedient partisan political person’s interests. Nepal’s non-alignment policy traditionally based on Panchasheel cannot survive on opportunistic partisan political interpretations, and also cannot serve and safeguard Nepal’s national interest. As non-alignment policy per se is defensive in nature, it cannot sustain a project is built on the premise of an economymilitary complex. Nonalignment for Nepal should mean safeguarding its national interest; and not be a vehicle for opportunistic appeasement. Who knows this better than the USA? Confucian wisdom says, "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." And this applies to all with common sense --powerful, less powerful, weak and disadvantaged.