Dimapur, August 25 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) has responded to the statement of the Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai in Imphal on the Indo- Naga Peace talks and termed it as “misleading.” The outfit pointing out that “nothing of what Mr. Pillai said correlates to anything that was discussed during the last 12 years between Govt. of India and NSCN, and in this is a serious dilution of the factual position of the Indo-Naga peace process.” Moreover, such statements to emanate from Home Secretary can only be taken as undermining the talks on the political issue that was agreed upon at the prime minister level and never at the Home Ministry level, stated a note issued by the group’s ‘MIP.’
While ridiculing Pillai for ‘distorting the Indo-Naga peace process at his own whims,’ the NSCN (IM) stated that “at no point of time it had accepted the importance of the Indian constitution to form the basis for the Naga solution”. It goes on to state that “no autonomy of any kind was also discussed and understanding reached” and that “for the Nagas, talks between the Government of India and the NSCN signify two entities”.
The ‘MIP’ also said that the government of India proved unscrupulous in more than one occasion when the Naga political issue was entering a critical stage. “In this context it may be pointed out that in one particular occasion Dr. Michael Van Walt Van Praag, Executive President of ‘KREDDHA’ (The International Peace Council for States People and Minorities) submitted proposal to the Indo-Naga talk teams for a probable solution”, the MIP note disclosed. Both the parties agreed to study and work out a solution on that basis, but the Indian team backed out from its commitment the next time. Recently, the Indian representatives proposed an “Interim Arrangement” but again they went back on their words in the next talks, it stated. The NSCN (IM) has tabled two proposals to the Government of India on substantive issues, however, it stated, till date there is no response from the Government of India.
