Dimapur, October 9 (MExN): Maintaining that ‘diplomatic strategy is part of the game,’ the NSCN-IM today refuted that the collective leadership has fled India. “Diplomatic strategy is a part of the game and it is a game of one-upmaniship...leaving India under such circumstances has nothing to do with fleeing India as made out by Khaplang group’s typical nature of putting a color to the Indo-Naga peace talks” stated the outfit’s MIP. While claiming that its chairman Isak Swu and general secretary Th. Muivah are ‘international figures,’ the MIP asserted that their “stature” has placed them “under certain obligations.” Any “wild calculation” on the part of NSCN-K CSB member Kughalu Mulatuno is an indication of how the NSCN-K will stoop to serve own interests, the NSCN-IM observed.
“But NSCN leaders will never allow the Government of India to dictate its terms of settlement. Notwithstanding the slow progress of the Indo-Naga peace process and other domestic problems the unity of NSCN raises no second question” the NSCN-IM asserted.
