Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli meets Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (not pictured) after a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's main Maoist party that props up the fragile coalition said on Thursday it had abandoned efforts to form a new government, averting an immediate crisis that had threatened to dislodge Prime Minister K.P. Oli.
The Maoist former rebels, the second biggest group in the coalition, triggered a crisis in the young republic on Wednesday by threatening to pull out of the unwieldy alliance.
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