Brussels, 28/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a declaration published on Monday, the Luxembourg presidency of the Council of the EU, reaffirmed that the initiative taken by the King of Nepal to assume executive power was a “serious setback to the prospects for a negotiated and democratically based solution to the conflict in Nepal”. The EU calls on the King to “take early measures to restore democratic freedoms and civil liberties, and to lift the emergency powers” he assumed when he...