Dimapur, March 17 2010: NSCN-IM supremo Thuingaleng Muivah will be in Nagaland for ten days starting from March 18 but this time there will not be any public meeting at camp Hebron nor reception programmes for him at the Dimapur Airport.

Disclosing this information to Newmai News Network tonight, V.S Atem, convenor of Steering Committee, the NSCN-IM's highest decision making body, said that due to security reasons the Airport Authority of India (AAI) had requested the concerned organisations not to have mammoth programme in the premises of the airport.

"We realised the reason placed by the AAI so we did not request further to the authority," said VS Atem.

Thuingaleng Muivah will arrive in Dimapur on Thursday by the Air-India flight and then he will go straight to the NSCN-IM's headquarters Hebron, off Dimapur.

As per information received, the NSCN-IM general secretary will leave Dimapur for New Delhi on March 28 to continue the ongoing talks with the government of India.

On the reason why no programmes such as 'peoples' consultative meetings' are not going to be held this time which were a sort of routine affairs everytime Thuingaleng Muivah was in Nagaland on earlier occasions, VS Atem explained that the general public do not like the idea of seeking the peoples' mandate again and again when the peoples' mandates were already given in the previous occasions.

"Since all the tribes' apex bodies and frontal organisations of the Nagas had already given their mandates on several occasions few years ago, the general public and the Naga public leaders want us to seek the peoples' mandate only when there crops up a new development or a sort of break-through in connection with the Naga issue," said VS Atem while adding, "Now the sustained talks with the government of India is going on in New Delhi and we are hopeful that a new development may arise".

"However, the Ato Kilonser ( i.e 'prime minister' Th Muivah) will attend the 'republic day' celebrations at camp Hebron on March 21 where all the tribes reprentatives and public are invited," said VS Atem.

NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah arrived in New Delhi from Amsterdam on February 27 and began the latest round of talks with the government from March 2 .

The NSCN-IM team met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Union Home minister P.Chidambaram on the first day of the talks in New Delhi and then the Government's interlocutor and former Nagaland chief secretary R.S Pandey.

Till date no parties i.e.the government and the NSCN-IM have disclosed the outcomes of the talks.

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