The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the its peacekeeping force in Nepal until 15th of January, 2011, giving the country's warring political parties four more months to settle their differences over government formation. The UNSC resolution called upon all political parties in Nepal to expedite the peace process, and to work together in a spirit of cooperation, consensus and compromise in order to continue the transition to a durable long-term solution to enable the country to move to a peaceful, democratic and more prosperous future.An accord signed on Monday by Nepal's caretaker prime minister and the leader of the opposition Maoist party pledged to complete the peace process by January 14, 2011. The Security Council resolution extended the peace mission until January 15 but stressed that the UN workers would then leave. In his latest report on Nepal, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote that he wasn't in favor of extending the peacekeeping force's mandate in the country, if the parties continued with their political bickering. In 2006, the Government and the Maoists ended a decade long civil war but since then the peace process has been wracked with loopholes. The UN peacekeeping force was set up in 2007.