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Thuingaleng Muivah, the wide caput of NSCN(IM). (File)
Twenty-seven years aft agreeing to a ceasefire, the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) has issued an an ultimatum to the Union authorities threatening to “resume the convulsive equipped absorption against India” if the Centre did not “honour” the 2015 Framework Agreement signed by the 2 parties to resoluteness the Naga governmental problem.
In a five-page connection signed by its wide caput Thuingaleng Muivah, the insurgent group, which archetypal signed a ceasefire with the Indian authorities successful 1997, said “we regularisation retired peaceful means against the ignominious betrayal of the missive and tone of the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015”.
This comes aft a fewer rounds of talks betwixt NSCN (IM) leaders – but not 90-year-old Muivah himself – and the Centre’s interlocutor A.K. Mishra successful Delhi past month. It besides comes at a clip erstwhile the cardinal authorities is besides holding parallel talks with Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs), an umbrella assemblage of 7 Naga organisations excluding the NSCN (IM).
Last week, the NNPGs urged the Centre to finalise a Naga accord this twelvemonth itself based connected a abstracted “Agreed Position” signed with them successful 2017.
An evident impasse implicit the question of a abstracted Naga emblem and constitution is 1 of the sticking points successful the dialog betwixt the NSCN I(M) and Union Government. Although issuing his ultimatum, Muivah suggested that helium was inactive leaving the model open, proposing “third enactment intervention” arsenic a last step.
“However, successful the archetypal place, we suggest a third-party involution to resoluteness the betrayal of the missive and tone of the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015 but if specified a governmental inaugural is rejected by the GOI, the NSCN shall resume the convulsive equipped absorption against India for defending the Nagalim unsocial past and her sovereign existence,” reads the statement.
According to sources, the “third party” referred to successful the connection is being interpreted arsenic a overseas mediator.
In his statement, Muivah has maintained that the “letter and spirit” of the Framework Agreement officially recognised and acknowledged a sovereign Naga nationalist emblem and Constitution. Reiterating his held presumption that a governmental statement connected the Naga contented has to beryllium based connected the Framework Agreement – and the NSCN (IM)’s mentation of it — Muivah said: “Nagalim and the NSCN volition not hold everlastingly for the GOI to respect and grant the missive and tone of the Framework Agreement… neither shall we hold for the GOI to recognise and admit Nagalim sovereign nationalist emblem and Nagalim sovereign nationalist constitution successful the governmental agreement.”
Significantly, adjacent aft the NSCN (IM) and the Centre signed the Framework Agreement successful 2015, an accord has yet to beryllium arrived at. Simultaneously, the Centre besides began parallel talks with the NNPGs and signed a abstracted “Agreed Position” for an accord with them successful 2017.
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