KATHMANDU, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Nepali Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan Friday held a meeting with the representatives of the international community, informing them about the preparations by the government for the upcoming Constituent Assembly elections.

    At the meeting at the Foreign Ministry, Pradhan said the government is fully committed to holding the elections on the scheduled date (April 10) and is working to bring all the agitating groups to the negotiating table to create an enabling atmosphere for the elections.

    "The government is prepared with open heart and a broad mind to embrace all dissenting voices and has thus called for them to come forward for a dialogue and not to stand in the way of the election, which is solely connected with the fate of the people of this country," she said, reading out a statement, "The government leaves no stone unturned this time to conduct the election on a scheduled date."

    She said the government would extend every possible support to the Election Commission for election preparation while further strengthening the security situation.

    Appreciating the continued support from friendly countries and other members of the international community to Nepal's peace process, the Foreign Minister also requested them to send election monitoring missions and media persons to Nepal.

    "While appreciating the continued and strong support extended by the friendly countries and the international community to our peace process over the period, the government of Nepal would like to request for sending observers and media persons to observe and support our election process so that we could show to the outside world our free and fair election process and the transition to the next phase of national building."

    Indian ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, British ambassador Andrew Hall, Danish ambassador Finn Thilsted, representative of the European Commission and United Nations were among those present at the meeting.