CSOs leaders to meet RN Ravi today in Imphal
UCM, AMUCO, CCSK leaders may try extracting formal response to september 10 memo
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, November 02 2015: The Government of India's interlocutor for Naga peace talk, RN Ravi will be arriving in Imphal on Tuesday.

During his visit, RN Ravi will be meeting representatives of United Committee, Manipur (UCM), All Manipur United Clubs Organisation (AMUCO) and Committee of Civil Societies, Kangleipak (CCSK) to discuss issues arising out the recently signed Naga Peace Accord between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM).

RN Ravi last visited Imphal on September 10 .

Sources said RN Ravi will arrive at the Imphal airport at around 11.15 am.

Though it was not immediately known who all Ravi will be meeting, some civil society leaders on Monday informed Hueiyen Lanpao that they would be meeting the Government of India's interlocutor for Naga peace talk.

In the last meeting with Ravi, UCM, AMUCO and CCSK representatives made their positions clear on the ongoing peace process between the Government of India and National Socialist Council of Nagalim or the NSCN (IM) .

On Monday, the representatives are likely to extract some sort of formal assurance and official response from the interlocutor.

In the last memorandum submitted, UCM, AMUCO and CCSK said that the people of Manipur had "every right to know" the entire peace process going on between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) that might "directly or indirectly affect Manipur's historical and political status" .

The organisations had also asked the Government of India to "produce a white paper" on the peace process with NSCN (IM) from 1997 onwards and also the details of the frame work agreement signed on August 3 between the Government of India and NSCN (IM).

The organisations made it clear that the Government of India should respect the "distinctive identity and political status of Manipur and its multicultural pluralistic society based on the principles of co-existence and communal harmony while ensuring integrity of its body-polity" .

The last memorandum pointed out that any cultural and administrative arrangement on the basis of ethnicity is "unacceptable" as it is tantamount to "communal and sectarian demarcation of aspirations and voices of smaller communities in Manipur" .

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