DIMAPUR, MAY 29 (MExN): The United Naga Tribes Association of Border Areas (UNTABA) today stated that any likely judgments or outcome on the litigation process presently undergoing in the Supreme Court regarding the Assam Nagaland border issue “shall not be accepted by the people of Nagaland.
The UNTABA, in a press note from its President, Hukavi Yeputhomi and General Secretary, Imsungmongba Pongen, said this in reference to the long pending case of the Original Suit No. 2 0f 1988 filed by the then AGP Government of Assam for arbitration of inter-State boundary between Nagaland and Assam.
The UNTABA stated that arbitration for determination on inter-State boundary between the states is “unconstitutional because as per the Constitutional provisions of Articles 3 & 4 of the Constitution of India, only the Parliament can undertake such power and it is clearly defined in the Points No. 12 & 13 of the ’16 Points Agreement’ of 1960 between the people of Nagaland and Government of India.”
It added that the Naga people “strongly believe on the political wisdom of negotiation based on the historical basis of accepting the facts of history when it comes to the determination of Nagaland.”
The UNTABA then stated that the boundary issue “is same with the Naga political issue; one cannot be settled without the other because they are interlinked.”
It further informed that the UNTABA will be conducting a ‘Naga Peoples’ Dialogue – II’ on the land and boundary issue between Nagaland and Assam some time in later part of June or first week of July 2016.
