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
Dimapur, May 14 (MExN): The United Naga Council of Manipur (UNC) has issued a statement today directing all Naga peoples and their organizations in the Naga areas in Manipur state not to “entertain” any Manipur government leader and even apparatuses and figures of governance. The UNC issued the statement notifications in reiteration of the organization’s July 1, 2010 declaration of Read more
Gautam Debroy, New Delhi (May 14): The visit of an eight-member European Union (EU) delegation to Nagaland has brought both the Ministry of External and Home Affairs (MEA) in confrontation with each other. Taking a strong note of the three-day-long visit, the MHA on Monday shot off a letter t o the MEA claiming it was not informed of the EU Read more
Dimapur, May 14: The NSCN group led by Thuingaleng Muivah and Isak Chisi Swu has accused the Khole-Kitovi led NSCN of attempting to sabotage the former’s 14 year-long peace process. The NSCN-IM decided to refrain from the Thailand reconciliation meet of the Nagas. On Monday, the NSCN-IM’s highest decision making body known as Steering Committee had a serious meeting in Read more