Amid controversy over extension of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)'s mandate, the Kathmandu-based ambassadors of the five permanent member states of the UN Security Council (UNSC) told Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) Chairman Prachanda that UNMIN would leave Nepal after Jan. 15, as per UNSC's decision taken in September. According to Thursday's Republica daily, as Prachanda sought the envoys' support to ask UNMIN to stay in Nepal till May 28, 2011 on Tuesday morning, the ambassadors of China, France, Russia, the United States and Britain suggested to Prachanda to work with political parties to devise an alternative mechanism to replace UNMIN. "They told us that yet another renewal of UNMIN's mandate would not be possible as the government had requested the Security Council for a final extension in last September," UCPN-M Vice Chairman Narayankaji Shrestha told Republica. On September 15, the UNSC had renewed the UNMIN's mandate till Jan. 15 after it received a request from the government for final term extension of the UN political mission tasked with advancing Nepal's peace process since January 2007.