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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Indraprasth aka New Delhi - Carrying forward the dialogue process on
the vexed Naga issue, NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general
secretary Thuingaleng Muivah will arrive here on Saturday to hold
talks with the Centre's new pointsman RS Pandey. They are also likely
to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the visit.
Swu and Muivah, who had last come to India in December 2006 and held
talks with Government leaders, are arriving a fortnight after the
Government appointed Pandey, a former Petroleum Secretary, as the new
interlocutor on Naga talks earlier this month.
The two top Naga rebel leaders, who are based in the Dutch capital
Amsterdam, are likely to call on the Prime Minister and Home Minister
P Chidambaram, official sources said here on Friday. Ahead of
meetings with political leadership, the Naga leaders will hold talks
with Pandey on March 2-3, they said.
The two leaders were also expected to visit Nagaland besides
addressing to the issue of clashes between the cadres of NSCN-IM and
its rival NSCN (Khaplang), which resulted in unrest in the recent
past. Sources in the Government said they would try and iron out the
differences with the Centre on key issues, including the sovereignty
demand under which the NSCN-IM has proposed a federal relationship
with Indian Union.
Pandey was appointed as the new interlocutor for Naga talks on
February 12 and while appointing him, Chidambaram had said, "I am
happy to announce the appointment of RS Pandey as the interlocutor
and the representative of the Government of India to hold talks with
NSCN-IM."
A Nagaland cadre IAS officer of 1972 batch, Pandey has served as
Chief Secretary in the insurgency-hit State and is a recipient of
Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Service in 2007
besides the UN Public Service Award in 2008.
He was appointed in place of former home secretary K Padmanabhaiah,
who had handled the dialogue process with the NSCN-IM for nearly a
decade. The Government relieved him from the responsibility last
September. The Naga delegation is now expecetd to continue its
discussion with Pandey over the limits of flexibility within the
Constitution and whether a "sub-national constitution" could be
accommodated within it.
The two leaders may also review progress made since the NSCN-IM
submitted a 20-point charter of demands to the Centre. In this
charter, the NSCN-IM has sought unification of all Naga-inhabited
areas of the north-east -- an issue opposed by Manipur, Assam and
Arunachal Pradesh -- separate representation at the UN and greater
rights over natural resources, finance, defence and policing.
A ceasefire was agreed upon with NSCN-IM since August 1997. In May
1998, the first negotiator Swaraj Kaushal was appointed. He continued
in his post till July 1999.
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