Notwithstanding their stunning performance in Nepal Constituent Assembly polls, the United States has said there was no change in the status of Maoists whom it regards as "terrorists", even as it hinted towards a possible review of that position, said online version of Times of Indian today.
"We have an organization being placed on the list of designated foreign terrorists organizations. (It) has legal requirements that are placed on us. We have to honour those legal requirements and we'll certainly do so in the case of Nepal," the report quoted State Department's Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey as saying.
"To the broader question... certainly to the extent, you have an organization that moves away from violence and terror and participates in a political process and engages in those kinds of legitimate activities, that would certainly, I think, give people an opportunity to at least look again at that situation and that organisation," the report quoted Spokesperson as saying.
"But at this point, you know there's no change in their status and we'll follow the law as appropriate" he said.
The United States had first put the former rebels on its list of terrorist organisations in 2003.
Last week, a top Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist leader had said that talks were underway with US officials for removing the "terrorist tag" imposed on the Maoists during their decade-long civil war, the report added.
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