Imphal, March 22 2010: Ato Kilonser (Prime Minister) of Government of People's Republic of Nagaland (GPRN/National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang Group), N Titovi Zhimomi has clarified that the political agenda of the group is not "integration" but "sovereignty".

At the same time, the Ato Kilonser, in an interaction with media-persons at the designated camp located at Khehoi, 25 kms from Dimapur in Nagaland, said that to bring an end to the political issues of the Nagas, the first priority should be unification of the Naga inhabited areas which would be followed by political process.

Home Minister Hothrong Yeichungru and Finance Minister C Singson of the NSCN(K) were also present at the interaction with the media-persons.

Dialogue between the NSCN (K) and the Government of India has not yet begun even though the outfit had signed the ceasefire truce because unification of the Nagas has not yet materialised.

Signing accord without unification will happen stepping into yet another difficult situation for the Nagas, like that of Shillong accord.

Keeping this in mind, the efforts for Naga reconciliation for unification of the Naga leaders are going on as the main issue now-a-days, he said and observed that it will take a long time, and it should go on carefully as it may lead to yet another difficulty.

That is why, the Naga reconciliation has been initiated and his government is trying its best to push the process forward, he said.

Considering that the political dialogue between the NSCN(IM) and the GOI has given a wrong signal to the people, the Joint Working Group had at its meetings on several occasions had resolved for the dialogue to be stopped.

There is no issue of "smaller or greater Nagaland".

These words will disintegrate the Naga people.

Nagaland will cover the areas of Myanmar and North Eastern States of the country where the Nagas are settled, the Prime Minister pointed out.

The Joint Working Group of NSCN(IM) and NSCN (K) was formed as per the wishes of the people for Naga Reconciliation.

Reconciliation meetings had already been held in parts of Manipur.

Naga Reconciliation is what the Nagas in Manipur wanted, he said.

Only after the Naga unification process is completed, the end point of political issue of Nagas settled in India and Myanmar can be brought about.

But sovereignty of Nagas which would come up later will be the main issue, he said.

Political dialogue between the NSCN(IM) and GOI at the Hebron designated camp will not yield any fruit.

It's the trick of the government of India.

NSCN(K) is making efforts to maintain a healthy relationship with other underground groups operating in the North Eastern Region of India but due to overwhelming number of groups in Manipur, there are difficulties in building a common platform, N Titovi Zhimomi further observed.

But, he said PLA, UNLF and KYKL outfits, waging war against India, have an understanding with the NSCN(K), he said.

Finance Minister C Singson, who took part in the interaction, said that as per wish of the people, the outfit is leading in the reconciliation process, and they are keeping clear-cut objective of the process to the people.

But some people are against the process, he observed.

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