UNC seeks third party's role in settling Naga issue
Source: Chronicle News Service / Newmai News Network
Senapati, April 04 2023:
A delegation of the United Naga Council (UNC) visited Kohima, Nagaland to submit a memorandum to the delegates of G20 Summit but could not do so as there was no proper platform to submit the memorandum.
However, the memorandum made available to Newmai News Network said that it was an urgent call for action by the international community in the Naga political issue involving India, Naga and Myanmar.
In the memorandum, UNC said that G20 Summit in Kohima is a rare opportunity for the Naga people in the present state of Manipur to highlight Naga people's desired political aspiration for translation into political reality for peace in the region.
The memorandum said that the Naga People's consultative meeting on political issue held on March 25, 2023 at Senapati (Tahamzam) deliberated the more than seven decades old Naga political conflict with India and Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) keeping in mind the fluidity of situation arising out of the deadlock of the talk between the Government of India and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN).
The consultative meet discussed the current Indo-Naga political negotiation between the Government of India and the NSCN and seriously viewed that in the event of the breakdown of the political negotiation, the situation in Nagaland/Nagalim will escalate into a full-fledged armed conflict, UNC said.
The consultative meet concluded that the Nagas represented by the NSCN entered into a political negotiation with the Government of India respecting democratic norms for resolving the issue through political negotiation.
During the political negotiation, the unique history and situation of the Nagas was recognised on July 11, 2002 and again on August 3, 2015 by signing the Indo-Naga Framework Agreement (FA) based on the foundation of sovereignty of the Nagas.
However, the fate of the FA hangs in balance after seven years as the commitment of the government of India fluctuates every now and then by refusing to.
acknowledge the Naga national flag and constitution.
From the Prime Minister level talks and without pre-condition, the Government of India is now side-tracking the Indo-Naga political issue into its 'internal law and order' issue, UNC alleged.
According to the UNC memorandum, the consultative meet recognised that Naga-Myanmar conflict is on account of the Nagas' refusal to join the Union of Burma and they did not sign the Panglong Agreement of February 12, 1947.Accordingly, the consultative meeting at Tahamzam adopted several resolutions and one of them was call upon the Government of India to implement in letter and spirit the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement.
The second resolution is that integration of Naga territories is the inherent birth right of the Naga people and therefore call upon India and Myanmar to remove all artificial national and international state boundaries that divided the Naga territories.
The third resolution condemns the Government of India's dubious and questionable method of accusing the negotiating party (NSCN) as a 'Terror organisation' after the MoU signed on November 18, 2002 in Milan (Italy) discontinued the ban on the NSCN under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and while the NSCN leadership is having political negotiation with the Gol in India on official invitation.
The fourth resolution said that the Government of India has deliberately made a U-turn from the current Indo-Naga political dialogue and it will threaten regional and international instability unless serious and renewed efforts are made to break the impasse, the memorandum said, while seeking international third party intervention in resolving the present impasse between the Government of India and the NSCN as there is trust deficit between the negotiating parties.
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