KOHIMA: The Centre’s emissary for Naga peace talks, AK Mishra, arrived in Nagaland on Thursday together with different representatives of the Union authorities and met the working committee of the Naga Nationwide Political Teams (NNPGs) at Dimapur in Nagaland.
The committee arrived in Nagaland on Tuesday to renew talks with Naga teams, following a lull pause within the peace course of (Ht Picture/ Consultant photograph)
The NNPGs, a coalition of seven Naga teams, have been in talks with the Centre and signed an “Agreed Position” in 2017.
In an announcement following their assembly on Thursday, the conglomerate mentioned the NNPG committee, led by newly appointed convener MB Neokpao, and dealing conveners P. Tikhak Naga and Isak Sumi, additionally mentioned constructing political consensus amongst Naga political teams and stakeholders to expedite the decision of the problem in a broad-based method, making certain no stakeholders are excluded.
“The ongoing efforts by various Naga civil society organisations to bring unanimity among conflicting NPGs has also been reviewed. Further, the house stressed on the need to maintain consistency and continuity of the process with patience, commitment and clarity until the logical conclusion of the issue,” the NNPGs assertion learn.
The Centre’s staff led by Mishra, who’s adviser to the Union house ministry, is predicted to fulfill the Isak-Muivah-led Nationwide Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM), with which it had signed the Framework Settlement in 2015.
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“There has been tension between the two parties after the Centre refused to officially recognize a separate Naga flag and Naga constitution to resolve the decades-old Naga political issue,” mentioned an official accustomed to the matter.
Mishra additionally met the parallel working committee led by N Kitovi Zhimomi.
Zhimomi, impeached by his group — the Nationwide Socialist Council of Nagaland (Unification) — in April 2024, continues to assert legitimacy of his breakaway group underneath the identical nomenclature, and his place because the convener of the NNPG working committee. The NSCN-U was since taken over by Zhimomi’s former colleague Alezo Venuh and Neokpao was appointed convener of the working committee.