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PM rules out NSCN core demands
The Telegraph | Kohima, April 17:
The 15-year talks between the Centre and the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) appears to be heading for a deadlock with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveying his government’s inability to accept the outfit’s core demands. The Centre has ruled out sovereignty and integration of contiguous Naga areas to hammer out a solution to the more than 60-year-old Indo-Naga political problem. It has reportedly offered greater autonomy to Nagas living in states outside Nagaland, an arrangement that has been opposed by non-Naga organisations in Manipur.
Singh also ruled out the NSCN’s demand for far more powers in the federal relationship between ‘Nagalim’ and New Delhi than is enjoyed by Indian states, even as NSCN chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah camped in New Delhi for the next round of talks with central leaders. Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio, who is believed to support Naga nationalism, today said going by Singh’s recent statements, New Delhi was not in a position to accept the demands of the NSCN.
“Whatever is possible will be possible even after 100 years but whatever is not possible will not be possible even after 100 years,” he quoted Singh as saying.
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