After that scintillating Q&A with Riz Khan, we hear that the prime minister has decided to appear regularly on CNN to answer questions from eager viewers.

Riz Khan: Welcome back to the programme, prime minister. So how has the Millennium Summit been for you?
Girija: My dear friend, I come from a land of summits, so for me there is nothing so special about this Summit. In fact, I had a summit with Kishunji just before I left and we decided that we would not come to blows just yet, and we would wait till the Party Convention.

Riz: But have you been meeting any world leaders in the corridors?
Girija: Not exactly in the corridors, but I did run into Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayeeji and General Musharrafsahab in the men\'s room and had a very small mini-summit right there. I had to remind them that there is a proverb in Hindi "pyar kiya to darna kydt" (which roughly translated means "my nuke is bigger than your nuke"). So I told them, look here my dear enemies, Nepal may be small country but our soldiers fight in one of your armies, so both of you have to be very careful.

Riz: We have a question here from Raju in Guam via email. He says: "I want to know when Nepal will become a rich country so I can come back home."
Girija: Raju bhai, this is a difficult question. As you know Nepal is a mountainous country sandwiched like a yam between two stones, India and China. We have a total area of 56,000 square miles. Our national flower is rhododendron, national bird is danphe, and our national pastime is pulling each other\'s legs. We don\'t take ourselves seriously, that is why we like to pull legs. Therefore we can never go ahead. So if I were you, I\'d keep that casino job and send home your dollar earnings so that we can afford to send 22 officials, one coach and five athletes to the Olympics every four years.

Riz: We have time for one last question, and on the line from Rolpa is a Mr Prachanda. Go ahead. "I\'m sorry to use the CNN channel, but I can\'t get through to the prime minister in Baluwatar. Girijababu, are you going to send Sher Bahadur to talk to us, or not?"
Girija: My dear comrade, as you must be knowing, we have planned a three-pronged approach to deal with you. We are giving our police better TA/DA so they will be less reluctant to come and pay you a visit at your headquarters, we are bribing your cadre to defect to us, and lastly but not leastly we are keeping Deubaji dangling there with you so he won\'t bother us.

Prachanda: So why don\'t you come to Rolpa yourself? We could have a Summit.
Girija: That\'s very kind of you. We have an all-party integrated package programme designed for your district. But I am hopeful that I can make it after Dasain. Shall I bring a khasi?

Riz: We\'ve run right out of time, and I\'m afraid we\'ll have to leave it there. Thank you, prime minister, thank you, comrades.