Amid speculations that they may announce some breakthrough in its talks with the government of India, NSCN (I-M) collective leadership, \u201cyaruwo\u201d Isak Chishi Swu and \u201cato kilonser\u201d Th. Muivah, who arrived Dimapur Saturday, said both sides were now serious enough on resolving the protracted Naga issue.<\/p>\n
During a brief interaction with the press on their arrival at Dimapur airport, NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chishi Swu said they have arrived home to interact and discuss with the Naga people of what should be done; adding consultative meeting would be held in the next two to three days.
\nStating that government of India was also serious on resolving the Naga issue at the earliest, Swu appealed to all the Nagas to earnestly pray for early solution. He said both sides were determined to hammer out differences and come to an agreement as soon as possible. Swu, however said everything cannot be disclosed at the moment. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Th. Muivah also echoed the remark of Swu and said both sides were serious enough. He said it was high time both sides reached an honourable settlement, \u201cif possible in the shortest time.\u201d
\nReplying to a query on how early Nagas can expect solution, Muivah said time can not be ascertained, adding \u201cwe have to talk still much and naturally it would take time.\u201d
\n\u201cBut we believe both sides are much more determined and we can overcome difficulties,\u201d Muivah said.
\nOn a query to define \u201cshared sovereignty\u201d, Muivah said it would be difficult at the moment to make elaboration.<\/p>\n
The MIP recently stated that Indo-Naga peace talk was going on \u201cin the spirit of shared sovereignty\u2019 and \u2018unique identity with inter-dependence relationship\u2019.\u201d
\nThe collective leadership of the NSCN arrived home just ahead of tomorrow\u2019s \u201cNaga Independence Day\u201d, August 14.
\nOn asking why the outfit this time was planning to observe \u201cNaga independence day\u201d as a closed-door function, Muivah said \u201caccording to times and situation people have to act and here also the same thing.\u201d <\/p>\n
He, however, asserted \u201cwe can understand people and people can understand us.\u201d Queried if they would hold consultative meetings with Naga bodies during their stay here, Muivah replied in the affirmative, saying \u201cin every possible way we will do that.\u201d
\nAsked to comment about the division in Naga society at the time when the Naga reconciliation process was going on, Muivah said it was not to wonder that Nagas were divided.
\nAccording to him \u201cthere is no perfect unity anywhere in the world and so it is not an exception to the Nagas. He said at certain stage of time the differences would be there. Muivah, however, was optimistic that Nagas can understand each other. \u201cThere is no doubt about it,\u201d he added. Many home-based NCSN leaders turned out to welcome the collective leaders on their arrival. The collective leaders after interacting with the media left for the council headquarters, Hebron.<\/p>\n
On July 18 last, Centre\u2019s interlocutor R.S Pandey and NSCN (I-M) general secretary Th. Muivah had jointly released a statement which stated that both the parties were confident of working out a settlement to the Naga political problem, in the \u201cshortest possible time\u201d. The statement had also admitted that while differences between the two parties have narrowed, some of the proposals would require further negotiations to reach a mutually acceptable solution.<\/p>\n
Rh. Raising welcomes collective leadership<\/span> Maintaining that there were people among the Nagas who advocated for peace when there was fighting and people who advocate fighting when there was peace, Raising said there was also another class of people who pleads for solution at one go. <\/p>\n \u201cThese people love parroting on the roof top on principle,\u201d he said, and pointed out that those people do not care about how that principle was to be concretized. \nFor More Updates, follow us on Amid speculations that they may announce some breakthrough in its talks with the government of India, NSCN (I-M) collective leadership, \u201cyaruwo\u201d Isak Chishi Swu and \u201cato kilonser\u201d Th. Muivah, who arrived Dimapur Saturday, said both sides were now serious enough on resolving the protracted Naga issue. During a brief interaction with the press on their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDelivering welcome speech on the arrival of the collective leadership to the council headquarters, NSCN (I-M) \u201ckilo kilonser\u201d Rh. Raising said Naga people hoped that they have come back today with a good news from the government of India.
\nA message of Rh. Raising was forwarded to the media by the outfit\u2019s ministry of information and publicity (MIP).
\nQuoting the Scripture passage \u201cthere is a time for war and a time for peace\u201d, Raising said Nagas too had a tough time for confrontation and now a good time for negotiations with the government of India. But he asked \u201chow long we will keep on talking with the Government of India?\u201d
\nStating that time factor counts in everything, the NSCN (I-M) \u201ckilo kilonser\u201d said \u201cour people want to see solution that brings a new era.\u201d He said Naga people were now looking forward for the leadership who begins construction in all fields.
\n\u201cThey have a big hope and trust in your leadership on this count too,\u201d he informed the collective leadership.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI hope our collective leadership is fully aware of all these facts,\u201d Raising said.
\nAsserting that they were surrounded by hostile elements, who have been trying to pull back the wheel of history but realizing the reality that NSCN was the only standard bearer, Raising said many of them have joined forces with the NSCN. \u201cSo also Nagas from all walks of life look up to the collective leadership of NSCN for solution as well as reconciliation and unity among the Nagas,\u201d stated the \u201ckilonser\u201d and hoped that Nagas can surely surmount all those hurdles and \u201cboard on the ship of the 21st century under your leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Facebook\"](\"http:\/\/cms.nagalandpost.com\/newsimages\/PhotosCollection\/BKDWMJOIYQWKXUNDBKXF.png\")
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