New Delhi, May 29 (PTI): To shore up its ties with India, Myanmar government has ordered Manipur-based militant outfits to shut their camps and training facilities and leave its soil by June 10. Quoting intelligence inputs, official sources said the Myanmar Army’s order was issued on May 24 — three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarked on his visit Read more
New Delhi, May 28 (Hindustan Times): New Delhi has no objections with Myanmar holding separate negotiations with Naga insurgents, said official sources. India has cooperated for many years, including coordinating joint military exercises, against Naga separatists. India would have been “happy” if there had been simultaneous pacts, but understands the Myanmar military plans a three-stage peace process of its own. Read more
New Delhi, May 28: As NSCN (Khaplang) rests over a peace pact with Myanmar, rival NSCN (Isak-Muivah) has extended a friendly advice: Beware, Myanmar is not India. Unwilling to reconcile with its rival, the NSCN (IM) has fought pitched battles with Khaplang’s men for almost 25 years now. But when the NSCN (K) signed an agreement with the Myanmar Government Read more
Nay Pyi Taw, May 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein as India suggested the two countries should work out a joint strategy to tackle terrorism and insurgency along their border and enhance security cooperation. Singh, the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Myanmar in 25 years since Rajiv Gandhi’s trip in December 2007, Read more
New Delhi, May 21: The Government of India is all set to sign a tripartite agreement sometime next month with both the Dima Hasao Daogah factions, it is reliably learnt. The DHD (Nunisa) faction chief Dilip Nunisa alongwith some of his colleagues met the Joint Secretary (North East), MHA, Mr Shambhu Singh on Monday afternoon in the North Block and discussed Read more
Three weeks after the Naga Reconciliation meeting of February 29, 2012, in Dimapur, Nagaland, Chiang Mai XIII, was held from March 19 to 22, 2012, the NSCN/GPRN (Isak and Muivah), NNC/FGN, and GPRN/NSCN (Khole and Kitovi) agreed that a “Highest Level Meeting of the Naga Leaders be held at the earliest.” The proposed meeting was “To hammer out our (Naga) Read more
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NAGALIM Ministry of Information & Publicity 21st May 2012 This is a rejoinder to Venuh Alezo’s press Statement carried in the local papers on the 16th May 2012. According to his statement we are compelled to think that Alezo has a confused mind. When the political dialogue started between the government of India and Read more
STATEMENT Oking: 20th May, 2012 It is pertinent to remind all that the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) came to the negotiating table when the government of India finally took the decision to go for a political settlement on the vexed Indo-Naga political conflict after having tasted the futility of going for military solution. The then Prime Minister Read more
If we don’t take all three factions into account, no kind of agreement is going to succeed -Shambhu Singh Even as the government of India has resolved to invite all three NSCN factions— NSCN (I-M), NSCN (K) and GPRN/NSCN, the recent statement made by the NSCN (I-M) expressing dismay over the GPRN/NSCN’s willingness to start a dialogue for “settlement within Read more