KATHMANDU, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Nepali Congress (NC) president and former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala Saturday said he would not let the politicization of Nepal Army happen at any rate, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported on Sunday.

    Koirala expressed the view while addressing a mass meeting organized as the part of the party's "national awareness campaign" in Nepalgunj, some 365 km west of Nepali capital Kathmandu. Nepali Congress now is the largest opposition party in the Constituent Assembly.

    "To integrate the People's Liberation Army (PLA) fighters affiliated to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) with the Nepal Army is to politicize the army. I would not let that happen at any rate," Koirala said.

    He also claimed the international community would support the policy that NC adopts.

    Around 19,000 PLA combatants are monitored by UN in 28 camps. The CPN-M and the then Seven-Party Alliance government in November2006 signed the Comprehensive Peace Accord, ending the decade civil war. The CPN-M led the formation of the republic government in August after emerging as the single largest party in the Constituent Assembly elections held in April.