UNC wants talks deferred
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network

Senapati, November 10 2024: The United Naga Council (UNC) has written to AK Mishra, Advisor North East), Ministry of Home Affairs, to reschedule the date for the next tripartite talk on the Manipur new district creation issue.

According to the UNC, earlier AK Mishra had invited the Naga body for the next round of talk in Senapati on November 13 at 10 am.

However, the UNC has expressed its inability to hold the talk on the said date.

The letter of the UNC written by its general secretary Vareiyo Satshang to AK Mishra, which was made available to Newmai News Network tonight, said, "With reference to your letter dated 8th November, 2024, on the captioned subject communicating that the next tripartite talk would be held on November 13, 2024, I am to inform you on the advice of the president of the UNC that due to inevitable prior engagement of some members of the UNC talk team on the day scheduled for the next tripartite talk, your good self may kindly reschedule the next talk in the fourth week of November 2024" .

It may be recalled that talks on the new district creation involving the Central Government, the United Naga Council (UNC) and the Government of Manipur resumed on October 11, 2024, in New Delhi after a long hiatus.

It is also worth noting here that, the previous Government of Manipur had created the seven new districts on December 8, 2016.In protest against that act of the Manipur Government, the UNC had imposed 139 days of economic blockade along the National Highways which pass through Manipur.

After the lifting of the blockade, the first round of talk was held on March 19, 2017 followed by several rounds of talk.

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