Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, December 05:
Leaders of NSCN (I-M), the major Naga insurgent Outfit, Isak Swu and T Muivah are likely to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on December 7 in a bid to take the ongoing peace process in Nagaland further.
Swu and Muivah, who are scheduled to reach here tonight from Amsterdam, are expected to meet Home Minister Shivraj Patil tomorrow, official sources said.
The Naga leaders "are coming to India to hold a continued and sustained dialogue" with New Delhi, the sources said.
The Naga leaders had visited India last year after a gap of over three decades and held peace parleys with then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his 3eputy LK Advani.
After a week's stay here, Swu and Muivah would visit Nagaland and meet NSCN cadres there.
Thereafter they will again come back to Delhi to carry on the dialogue with Centre's interlocutor on the Naga peace process K Padmanabhaiah and other top officials, sources said adding, they will be in India for a few weeks.
Amsterdam - based NSCN (I-M) leadership had indicated last month that it was "reconsidering" its decision to visit India to carry forward the pence process, a virtual threat to pull out of talks.
Apparently the grounds given by NSCN (I-M) leaders for reconsidering their visit were that another insurgent group NNC was "arming" itself when it was maintaining a ceasefire with security forces in Nagaland and also that its rival faction NSCN (Khaplang) was accusing it of "undermining" the issue of sovereignty and talking to New Delhi.
Informed sources had indicated that Padmanabhaiah spoke to Swu and Muivah recently on telephone to inform them that the Indian Government was "sincere" in continuing the peace process.
The Naga leadership "saw the logic" and finally decided to come to India on December five, the sources had said.