The Naga talks will resume in Delhi on Tuesday amid hopes of an early solution to the long-drawn impasse in Nagaland.
The next round of the Centre-Naga talks will begin on Tuesday. The NSCN(I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah arrived in New Delhi on Saturday night. Muivah will hold talks with the Centre's new interlocutor R S Pandey.
The Naga leaders are expected to call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram by end of this week.
Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has said that Muivah had accepted the invitation from the Government of India communicated through R S Pandey, the new interlocutor, to resume the peace dialogue.
Muivah said in Delhi: "I assured my people we will stand our ground. We also respect India and the right of India and their interest, we respect but at the expense of our rights...sorry I cannot do that."
The Union Home Secretary said: "No, people can demand, so many things. It is not enough to demand. We have to make states which are viable, you cannot have states which are not viable, it will just collapse on its own."
The Naga group has been blaming the government for the delay in finding a solution to the six-decades-old Naga problem.
"It is pretty long time that we have been talking to government of India and it is high time that the government should take the matter seriously. In more than 10 years, they could not solve the problem so they are responsible for that," the NSCN-IM general secretary said.
The next round of the Centre-Naga talks will begin on Tuesday. The NSCN(I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah arrived in New Delhi on Saturday night. Muivah will hold talks with the Centre's new interlocutor R S Pandey.
The Naga leaders are expected to call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram by end of this week.
Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has said that Muivah had accepted the invitation from the Government of India communicated through R S Pandey, the new interlocutor, to resume the peace dialogue.
Muivah said in Delhi: "I assured my people we will stand our ground. We also respect India and the right of India and their interest, we respect but at the expense of our rights...sorry I cannot do that."
The Union Home Secretary said: "No, people can demand, so many things. It is not enough to demand. We have to make states which are viable, you cannot have states which are not viable, it will just collapse on its own."
The Naga group has been blaming the government for the delay in finding a solution to the six-decades-old Naga problem.
"It is pretty long time that we have been talking to government of India and it is high time that the government should take the matter seriously. In more than 10 years, they could not solve the problem so they are responsible for that," the NSCN-IM general secretary said.
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