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Ex-Nepali Royals Want to Help Lead the Country

It doesn’t look like Nepal’s former royal family are giving up on their country, a year after Nepal abolished the monarchy. Ex-Crown Prince Paras, for example, says he wants to get involved in Nepali politics. paras_shah1

He also claims his father is working on restoring the monarchy.

Paras said all this to a Singaporean tabloid recently.

He claims that when his father, former King Gyanendra went to India a few weeks ago, he was in talks to bring back Nepal’s monarchy with the Bharatiya Janata Party of India.

37 year old Paras also says he hopes to have a chance at Nepali politics, when the time is more appropriate. He wants to form a new party for young people with a vision to help their country, and to assume power by the ballot box.

Unlike his father, Paras no longer lives in Nepal, but in Singapore. He claims he left because he felt no longer safe in his own country.

Nepal was ruled for over 230 years by the Shah dynasty, and was the world’s only Hindu kingdom.

But years of civil war, and the massacre of the royal family by Crown Prince Dipendra in 2001, caused the monarchy to be abolished.

April 7th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Non Reigning Royals | Leave a comment

Jordanian King Tours Eastern Europe

Jordan’s King Abdullah II traveled to Eastern Europe Monday, for the start of a three day working tour of three countries in that region. Those countries were Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia. ROMANIA JORDAN

First stop was Bucharest, Romania, where the King met with President Traian Basescu at Cotroceni Palace. After the official welcome, which included the playing of the two nations’ anthems, the leaders got down to business.

One of the topics they discussed was economic cooperation in Iraq, either after or even before coalition troops leave the country. Basescu pointed out that Romania and Jordan have always had strong ties together.

“11,000 Jordanians have been trained in Romania, and hold now solid positions in their country. Romania has anytime an open door to Jordan,” President Basescu said.

The Romanian president thanked King Abdullah for the facilities offered to the Romanian community from Jordan. In his turn, the King said that Romania represents for Jordan a door to Southeast Europe and to the European community, since its embassy is the only one in the region.

In addition, Romania and Jordan signed four documents on bilateral cooperation on economic cooperation, protection of investments, cultural and scientific cooperation and environmental protection.

The next day, King Abdullah went west to the Czech Republic. There, he met with President Vaclav Klaus. Again, bilateral ties were discussed.

Later on Tuesday, the monarch went to Slovakia, and met with President Ivan Gasparovic.

During these tours, King Abdullah stressed peace talks for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The point of his visits was also meant to encourage Eastern Europe to help with the peace initiative.

According to the King, this peace initiative is an occasion to demonstrate the intention of the Arab world to get involved in settling the conflict.

“The Arab peace initiative offers an unprecedented chance to settle this conflict and demonstrates the Arabs’ engagement for lasting peace. Israel must decide if it wants to use this opportunity and be integrated in the region,” he said.


April 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Jordan | Leave a comment