Kathmandu, Oct. 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s special envoy Shyam Saran today said the Nepal stalemate would end as soon as the parties finalised their new schedule for the Constituent Assembly elections.

Saran, who arrived here on a two-day visit yesterday, said after meeting home minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula this morning that everything depended on the eight-party alliance. “The parties themselves will have to sort out their differences,” he said. The envoy hoped that the new poll schedule would be announced soon.

Earlier, Saran met former Prime Minister leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, chief election commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel, former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa and Rastriya Prajatantra Party chairman Pashupati Shumshere Rana.