JOIN USGovt, NSCN say talks on, solution in sight
The Centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isaac-Muivah) on Friday said the talks to resolve the Naga issue was progressing in the right direction and they were closer than ever before to a settlement.
In a joint communique after the latest round of talks here, both sides said details are being worked out in right earnest after the framework agreement was signed on August 3 last year.
"We assure the people that the talks are progressing in the right direction with determination. We are closer than ever before to the final settlement and hope to clinch it sooner than later," the statement issued after the meeting of Government's Naga interlocutor R N Ravi and NSCN(IM) General Secretary T Muivah, said.
The statement said the initiative of the Centre and NSCN(IM) to amicably resolve the Naga political issue has "received a new urgency and impetus" during the last two years.
"The talks have become more purposeful, less ritualistic, more forthright and far more frequent. In the last two years we met more number of times than ever before. It helped build unprecedented mutual understanding and trust," it said.
It said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "statesmanship, his respect and love for the Naga people, their legitimate rights and aspirations and wisdom of the Naga leaders" lead to the historic Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, which laid down the political parameters of the final solution. Within these parameters, details are being worked out in earnest, it said.