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Last updated : SATURDAY 17TH JUNE 2006

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 *Centre
Reviews
Asom
Situation *

*Delhi** may question ULFA urgency*

By a Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, June 16: The Centre today gave enough hints that during its June
22 meeting with the PCG in New Delhi it might make its stand on the release
of five jailed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders clear and ask
the ULFA-picked group to spell out the seriousness of the rebel group for a
dialogue.
Agarwal reviewed the law-and-order situation in the State in a meeting with
Chief Secretary S Kabilan and top officials of the Army and the CRPF.
According to sources, Agarwal also quizzed the Chief Secretary and top
security officials present in the meeting on the denial by the ULFA of its
hand in the recent blasts and the police pointing its finger towards the
rebel group. In no uncertain terms, Agarwal made it clear during the meeting
that the Centre was much worried of the recent violence in Asom.
Talking to The Sentinel later, Chief Secretary S Kabilan said that the
meeting reviewed the situation in the State since June 8 and the group or
groups involved in the blasts. Besides the modalities for the June 22
Centre-PCG talks, Asom-Nagaland border disputes also figured in the meeting,
Kabilan said, and added: "We have placed a detailed report before the Union
Joint Home Secretary on the recent blasts in State."
On the release of five jailed ULFA leaders, he said that the State
Government, on being asked, had already made its stand known to the Centre,
and now the ball was on the Centre's court. He further added that after the
June 22 meeting the Centre would take a clear and a firm stand on the ULFA
front.
Sources said that the Union Government would also quiz the PCG on the degree
of seriousness for talks on the part of the ULFA.
* Centre's decision on release of jailed ULFA leaders likely in *une 22 meet

* PCG has to brief Centre on the seriousness of ULFA for talks
* Centre may take a clear and firm stand on ULFA front after June 22 meeting
* Asom-Nagaland border disputes reviewed









*Ulfa pegs faith in dialogues*

*http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060618/asp/northeast/story_6366551.asp***

A STAFF REPORTER

*Guwahati, June 17:* A day after Dispur urged Delhi to make it clear to the
Ulfa-constituted People's Consultative Group that violence and talks could
not go hand-in-hand, the outfit said the resolution of the problem facing
Assam was possible through dialogue.

The outfit, however, denied any hand in the recent blasts and said the
ongoing peace initiative was "talks-oriented and not result-oriented". It
also said a section was trying to overpower the Ulfa through military as
well as psychological pressure.

In the latest issue of its mouthpiece *Freedom,* under an editorial
headlined "Let talks produce results," the outfit stated that those who ask
Ulfa to show restraint should first analyse the role of the outfit during
the recently- concluded Assembly elections. Though it did not elaborate,
this year's elections were by and large peaceful in comparison to the ones
held in 2001.

A meeting chaired by chief secretary S. Kabilan had conveyed Dispur's views
to Rajiv Agarwal, joint secretary in-charge of Northeast in the Union home
ministry, during an hourlong meeting this week. The overwhelming opinion at
the meeting was that Ulfa could not play a double game. The third round of
talks between the PCG and a Union home ministry team is slated for June 22
in New Delhi.

The Ulfa further said similar terror runs like the recent ones were also
staged before the last two rounds of Centre-PCG talks. "We would like to
assure our people that resolution of this issue is possible through
dialogues," it said, citing the resolution of the problems of East Timor and
Serbia-Montenegro. It accused the Centre of misleading the masses by blaming
the outfit for the recent terror run.

Neso memorandum

A 16-member delegation of the North East Students' Organisation (Neso) met
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi this evening and submitted a
memorandum with an eight-point charter of demands. The delegation, led by
Neso chairman Sammujjal Bhattacharyya, requested Singh to concede to their
demands, including steps to bring all militant groups to the negotiating
table for peace.





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