NATIONAL SOCIALIST COUNCIL OF NAGALIM
Ministry of Alee Affairs (Foreign Affairs)
Oking: August 25, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
The Indo-Naga political peace process between the Government of India (GoI) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) initiated on August 1, 1997, at the Prime Minister level, without pre-condition and in a third neutral country, has no ambiguity regarding the decades old Indo-Naga political conflict. The principles give credibility to the statement of India’s Prime Minister PV. Narashimha Rao in his meeting with the NSCN leadership, Late Chairman Isak Chishi Swu and General Secretary, Th. Muivah, atParis, France, on June 12, 1995, to have political negotiations with the NSCN, recognizing the fact that the Indo-Naga issue is a political conflict requiring a political solution.
The principles behind the current ongoing Indo-Naga political negotiation between the GoI and the NSCN signifies and entails that no past short-term agreements on the Indo-Naga issue are final, including the so-called 16-Point agreement and the formation of the present Nagaland state (1963) and the 1975 Shillong Accord. These so-called agreements are not accepted by Nagalim and the Naga people. The present Nagaland state is not the “bedrock of Nagalim,” nor is the 1975 Shillong Accord a mandated agreement of the Naga nation. The two together are an outright betrayal of the Nagalim nationalist movement for political independence.
The top leadership of the NSCN is very clear with its objective for concluding an honorable and acceptable political solution either with India or Burma (Myanmar). In view of this, the leadership agreed to have political negotiation with the GoI when it agreed that the Indo-Naga conflict is not the “internal matter” of India and declared the futility of militarism and military solution. Subsequently, the Amsterdam Joint communiqué of July 11, 2002, and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, were signed in recognition of Nagalim’s “unique history and situation”, that “sovereignty lies with the people” and “sharing of sovereign power”. And on August 14, 2025, Independence Day speech, the Chief Political Negotiator, Th. Muivah, General Secretary-Ato Kilonser (Prime Minister), NSCN/GPRN made it sufficiently clear that “an enduring inclusive new relationship of peaceful co-existence of the two entities” can be realized respecting and honoring the letter and spirit of the Amsterdam Joint communiqué of July 11, 2002, and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015.
The August 14, 2025, Independence Day speech of the Chief Political Negotiator, Th. Muivah, General Secretary-Ato Kilonser (Prime Minister), NSCN/GPRN, is consistent with the Collective Leadership statement of December 16, 2022, on the “letter and spirit of the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015”. The statement had categorically declared that the official position of the NSCN on Nagalim’s unique history, sovereignty, and new relationship. That the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, is of two 2 sovereigns and sovereignty being constitutive of national identity, the flag and constitution are the Nagalim national flag and national constitution.
The Nagalim flag and constitution are the national flag and national constitution. Nagalim’s national flag is not a social and cultural flag, nor is it a “totem” or a “piece of cloth”. Hence, in consonance with all national flags, it represents the Naga nation and shall fly in the institution that represents the Naga nation. The Nagalim constitution is its national constitution, not some “basic law” or a “Yehzabo” without the connotation and significance of a national constitution. The mutually agreed sovereign powers shall constitute THE CONSTITUTION, which shall be called Yehzabo/constitution in the Nagalim language. Nagalim is and shall be sovereign in all matters of her own affairs.
Based on these truths, the NSCN is and shall negotiate for an honorable and acceptable political solution to the last, come what may. That is our accountability and responsibility in defending and upholding the August 14, 1947, Nagalim independence declaration and the May 16, 1951, plebiscite for Nagalim sovereignty.
Therefore, the final negotiated Indo-Naga political settlement shall be based on the mutually agreed political agreement derived from the current ongoing political negotiation based on the letter and spirit of the Amsterdam Joint communiqué of July 11, 2002, and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015. The Indo-Naga political agreement shall not be based on the constitution of India or Burma (Myanmar).
It is imperative to realize and understand that the current ongoing Indo-Naga political peace process is based on sovereignty and is a political negotiation between two sovereigns. Therefore, the final honorable and acceptable political solution shall be on the foundation of sovereignty and of two sovereigns, since both entities are sovereign.
The Naga people have to decide whom we will serve, for we cannot serve two masters. We have a choice to make, and we have to make the correct choice.
We endorse the clarion call of the NSCN/GPRN President Q. Tuccu, to the Naga people and Nagalim on his commemorative speech of May 16, 2025 Plebiscite day and the 10th anniversary of the Framework Agreement to uphold the letter and spirit of the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015 and challenging the Naga people to choose what political solution will they seek, whether under the Indian constitution and the “Agreed Position” (November 17, 2017)or the God given Nagalim unique history, Nagalim sovereignty, the Nagalim national flag and national constitution now officially recognized by the Amsterdam Joint communiqué of July 11, 2002 and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015 .
We reiterate and declare our official position to uphold the political position on Nagalim’s unique history and sovereignty by the November 7, 2024, “Statement of the Chief Political Negotiator, Th. Muivah, General Secretary-Ato Kilonser, NSCN/GPRN on the Indo-Naga political negotiation and the letter and spirit of the framework Agreement of August 3, 2015. Therefore, our decision is “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15) And we will not betray the unique history of free, independent Nagalim, our sovereignty, our territory, our national flag, and our national constitution. We shall stand by these God given national rights for Nagalim and the Naga people, to the last, come what may. Therefore, we stand by the January 18, 2023, official position of the NSCN/GPRN that, “The Nagas do not acknowledge any agreements signed under the constitution of India”.
Nagalim’s freedom cannot be achieved from the position of fear and servitude mindsets. We are able to defend and protect the God given freedom and our territory. Nagalim is given to the Naga people by our Lord God Almighty, and therefore, we stand by the national decision for an independent, free, and sovereign Nagalim. The Nagalim sovereignty, the Nagalim sovereign territory, the Nagalim sovereign national flag, and the Nagalim sovereign national constitution given by the Lord God Almighty are non-negotiable.
The Amsterdam Joint communiqué of July 11, 2002 and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015 officially signed between two sovereigns are the foundations for the final Indo-Naga political agreement. And any organizations who signs an agreement that deliberately and consciously ignores and omits the Nagalim national principle on sovereignty and Nagalim national flag g and Nagalim national constitution is betraying the Naga people and the Naga nation.
We are persuaded in Nagalim’s freedom for we trust in the power and promise of Yahweh!!
Kuknalim!
External Publicity Wing (EPW), MAA-East