UNITED NATIONS, July 23 – The UN Security Council on Thursday extended the mandate of the UN mission in Nepal for another six months but urged the government to resume a stalled peace process to allow the mission to leave in January.

Under a 2006 deal that ended a decade-long civil war between the government and Maoist rebels in the Himalayan state, the United Nations supervises compliance by the former combatants with an agreement on their arms and armies.