The European Union has urged Nepal’s Maoist rebels to disarm before constituent assembly elections due next year. “No political party can go to elections with a gun on its shoulder,” Neena Gill, leader of the European Parliament Monitoring Mission to Nepal, told a media conference here on Friday. “The Maoists are not keen to disarm before elections to a constituent assembly, but we have found that they are keen to join a multi-party system. The European Union would encourage them not to carry arms,” Gill said at the end of a six-day trip to the troubled Himalayan nation. Full Story