[Assam] Muivah & Swu, drop your ‘Christo-Western’ pretence and find your footing in a cohesive indigenous socio-economic-political frame work of the region with mutual trust and respect and a future place amongst the UN member States.

[Bartta Bistar]

[image: The Assam Tribune online]
*Guwahati, Tuesday, October 31, 2006*

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*NSCN-IM toughens stand on sovereignty
*From Our Spl Correspondent
 NEW DELHI, Oct 30 – Faced with a deadlock in the Naga peace process, the
Group of Ministers (GoM) is likely to move the Prime Minister seeking fresh
directions. With NSCN (I-M) toughening its stand on the issue of sovereignty
and seeking written commitment from Government of India, the GoM is not left
with any choices other then seeking fresh direction from the Prime Minister.


Centre's interlocutor, K Padmanabaiah is meeting Union Home Minister,
Shivraj Patil here tomorrow to brief him about the latest impasse and also
reports about the Amsterdam talks.

Sources said that the GoM has no choice other then to approach the Prime
Minister and appraise him about the new conditions put by the NSCN (I-M).

Meanwhile, NSCN I-M chairman Isak Chishi Swu demanded the presence of an UN
certified mediators at the talks. He said that the negotiations between the
Government of India and the NSCN (IM) had entered a critical juncture 'if
not a stalemate' and accused New Delhi of not being sincere with its
proposal.

The Chairman, who was addressing the Un-represented Nations and People
Organisation (UNPO) general assembly at Taipei, Taiwan, last week, demanded
'a third party intervention endorsed by the UN through the initiation of the
UNPO be undertaken'. "We trust that the UNPO will take all necessary steps
in lobbying for our case in the United Nations and other international
arenas".

About the last round of negotiations held at Amsterdam, Swu said 'Nagas have
realised that interdependence has replaced independence in the geo-political
landscape of today' and that the NSCN (IM) had proposed for a 'special
federal relationship between India and Nagalim, which would clearly be
defined under the terms of the political agreement'.

"It would be two entities inseparable yet not one within the other. Anything
below this would tantamount to political tragedy for our people and betrayal
to our nation", Swu said in his address.

"We have the confidence in the present Indian leadership that neither the
bane of party politics nor constitutional intricacies will hamper their
correct judgment. A just and honorable solution to the Naga problem would
usher in peace in the entire region; equally bringing an end to one of the
world's longest running conflicts", he said.
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