Source: The Sangai Express
Kohima, January 28:
After more than a month of consultation with a large cross-section of people in Nagaland, top leaders of NSCN (I-M) leave for Delhi tomorrow to commence the next round of talks with Centre's representatives for finding a solution to the decades-old Naga political problem.
NSCN (I-M) chairman Issac Chishi Swu and its general secretary Th.Muivah, who had arrived here on December 14, yesterday had interaction with leaders of PCC and Nagaland BJP unit.
Sources said the Congress delegation was led by Opposition leader I Imkong while BJP was represented by senior leader Mozamo Ngulie and others.
It is not, however, known what transpired in the interface with Congress and BJP leaders.
The senior NSCN (I-M) leaders, who have been in India for over a month at the invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were given what the leaders call a 'mandate' by a two-day Naga people's consultative meet on the on-going peace process at the organisation's headquarters 'Camp Hebron', off Dimapur recently.
The consultative meeting, attended by over 6,000 people representing Naga villages of Nagaland, Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, in a declaration said the protracted conflict must be resolved by NSCN (I-M) and Government of India by peaceful means.
It also asserted that no solution can be found without bringing Naga-inhabited areas of the North-East under a single administrative set-up.
In the next round of talks, likely to begin by month-end or early next month, the Centre would be represented by a group of ministers led by Union Minister Oscar Fernandes.