Kathmandu, Aug 17 (DPA) A UN report Monday urged Nepalese political parties to end social inequality in the country to consolidate the gains of peace.

The appeal came in the Nepal Human Development Report 2009, which was released in the Nepalese capital Monday.

The report said the gap between people with access to electricity and other facilities and those without was increasing or had not improved.

'The Human Development Report records the serious nature of uneven development,' UN resident representative Robert Piper said.

'Although there had been important gains in the development index on the national level, the gaps between the advantaged and disadvantaged groups remain the same.'

Piper said power relations had not changed significantly since the restoration of democracy in 1990.

'The message of today's report is that absence of war does not ensure either lasting peace or prosperity,' Piper said.