BEIJING, Feb. 1(Xinhuanet)-- China respects the choice of Nepalese in developing their own country and sincerely wishes the nation to realize social security, economic development and ethnic pacification, Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a regular press conference here Tuesday.

He made this remark when asked to comment on Nepal's King Gyanendra's Tuesday a nnouncement of dissolving the coalition government led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and forming a new government under his own"chairmanship".

Calling this decision"an internal affair of Nepal," Kong said that China will respect Nepalese people's option on how to developtheir own country.

Deuba was appointed prime minister by Gyanendra on June 2, 2004,and sworn in on July 5, 2004.