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Nepal PM urges quick repatriation of refugees KATHMANDU, Monday (AFP) Nepal's prime minister returned from Bhutan where he urged leaders to begin the repatriation of some 100,000 Bhutanese refugees living in his country for the past decade. Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa met in Thimphu with his Bhutanese counterpart Jigmi Thinley and called for the "earliest repatriation of the Bhutanese refugees," a foreign ministry official here said. He also delivered a letter with a similar message to King Jigme Singye Wangchuk from Nepal's King Gyanendra, the official said. The refugees, who are mostly of Nepalese descent, fled to the neighbouring kingdom in the early 1990s when Bhutan imposed cultural reforms that encouraged the use of its national language and dress. Bhutan, which denies any anti-Hindu agenda, has agreed to repatriate all who were forcibly evicted but contends that most of the refugees left voluntarily. |
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