Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, November 24:
Peace talks between the Centre and NSCN (I-M) seems to have suffered a setback with the major Naga insurgent group reconsidering its decision to visit India in the end of November and meet the leadership here, informed sources said today.
"Apparently the NSCN (I-M) leadership (based in Thailand) is having second thoughts on their decision to come to India to carry forward the peace process for reasons best known to it," they said.
In a joint statement issued on October 23 at the end of the two-day talks between the Centre's interlocutor K Padmanabaiah and NSCN (IM) general secretary T Muivah in Bangkok, the Naga side had said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's invitation to the outfit's leaders to visit India showed that the Indian Government was committed to finding an early and mutually satisfactory solution to the Naga issue.
But now the NSCN (I-M) leaders are "dilly dallying" and raising "irrelevant" issues like accusations inade by its riyal group NSCN (Khaplang) that it was "undermining" the issue of sovereignty and talking to New Delhi.