Kathmandu: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former US president Jimmy Carter will be arriving in Nepal on April 7 with wife Rosalynn to monitor the historic election next week that could end the Himalayan nation's nearly 250-year-old monarchy and turn the country into a republic.

Carter, whose Carter Center is active in over 70 countries resolving conflicts and fighting diseases, will lead the center's international election observation delegation at the invitation of the government of Nepal, that also includes the Maoists.

The high-level delegation will include Thailand's former deputy prime minister Surakiart Sathirathai, the Carter Center said in a statement Tuesday.

The mission will also include more than 60 observers representing over 20 different nationalities deployed throughout the country.

About 128 national organisations and 28 international ones, including teams from the UN, German parliament and EU, will monitor Nepal's first constituent assembly election, scheduled April 10.

Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala last month wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, inviting him to Nepal to observe the election, which aims to turn Nepal into a constitutional republic.

Source : IANS