WASHINGTON, USA, May 8, 2002: The Bush White House fleetingly turned its attention to India’s neighbor Nepal, where a Maoist insurgency that daily kills ten times as many victims as in the Middle-East goes largely unnoticed by the outside world. But the US administration is concerned by developments in the Himalayan kingdom and President Bush invited the country’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to the White House for talks. At the daily White House briefing the Nepal issue took just one question — if Deuba’s visit hadn’t been overshadowed by that of more famous leaders, and if President Bush had been sufficiently well briefed on the problems in Nepal. Deuba is expected to meet Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss aid issues.
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