Source: The Sangai Express
Kohima, December 05:
Welcoming the visit of the NSCN (I-M) top brass to India, the Congress today said the UPA Government was sincere and committed to resolving the decades-old Naga question.
The Congress Working Committee member and the party's North-East in-charge, Ramesh Chennithala, said the Centre had decided to maintain transparency in its ongoing peace talks with the NSCN (I-M).
NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Th Muivah are scheduled to arrive in Delhi late tonight to meet leaders and representatives of various Naga organisations based in India during their stay in the country.
Chennithala told newsmen at Dimapur that the Congress' sincerity towards finding a lasting solution to the Naga problem could be gauged from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's extending invitation to the NSCN (I-M) leaders to visit India for holding talks.
The Congress hoped that the talks would be positive and yield some results.
He discounted the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland's allegation that the Congress has been a stumbling block in carrying forward the Naga peace process.
Chennithala called upon all insurgent groups in the North-East to abjure violence and come to the negotiating table.
The Congress leader, who has been in the State for the past two days in connection with the December 8 municipal polls, said in Kohima that seven years had gone by without any outcome in the peace talks between the Centre and NSCN (I-M).
This time the Congress is hopeful of furthering the negotiations between the two sides for an early settlement.