Kathmandu, July 5:

A meeting of the Maoist talks team led by Krishna Bahadur Mahara today approved the working procedures of the Ceasefire Code of Conduct National Monitoring Committee with minor changes, a member of the Maoist talks team, Dinanath Sharma, said.

A 32-member national committee headed by Birendra P Mishra has been formed to monitor the ceasefire code of conduct. On June 26, a joint meeting of the government-Maoist talks teams had reached an agreement to allow the monitoring team to develop its own working procedures and submit them to both sides for approval.

Sharma said the interim statute drafting committee, was given green signal to start its work today.

He said both the talks teams, top leaders of the Maoists and the party alliance would later finalise the committee’s organisational structure and political issues to be settled while drafting the interim statute.