The foreign powers that had been supporting the seven parties' movement are now in a state of shock having learned that Maoist leaders who had held talks with the parties' chiefs in New Delhi were none other than Mohan Baidya, alias Kiran, and CP Gajurel, alias Gaurab, who have been in Indian jails for a while. How could Kiran, who had been jailed in Siligugdi and Gaurab, who was kept in a jail in Chennai, meet the parties' leaders in New Delhi? This is something that has left even some Indian leaders flabbergasted. The international community is disappointed that the seven parties are now following the Maoists' agenda. The pact has made the foreign powers feel that the parties are not interested in sustainable peace and democracy but for state power. What has made them more suspicious about the parties is the way the issue of the reinstatement of the House of Representatives has been treated in the understanding with the Maoists. House reinstatement was one issue that had drawn the international community's sympathy toward the parties' movement but the agreement only lists it as a matter for further discussion.