Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kathmandu April 1, 2013. The former president, whose Carter Center observed Nepal's last elections in 2008, arrived last week to encourage political parties to conduct delayed national elections and to push forward a peace process following the war. Carter said his organisation would again observe the polls expected this year. Picture taken April 1, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: POLITICS PROFILE)