Centre reviews Naga peace process
From Our Staff Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 24 The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today reviewed the Naga peace process and the law and order situation in the North-East. Briefing newsmen, Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee said that the meeting of the CCS today reviewed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East. Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, heads the CCS and meeting today was attended by Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, Defence Minister and Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram.
According to sources, the CCS meeting while reviewing the Naga peace process explored the various options available to the Centre to break the logjam. The Centre, however, is keeping its cards close its chest and keeping its future plans under wraps.
Sources further added that the CCS meeting took stock of the inter-State boundary dispute involvin! g Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh. The tension along Assam-Meghalaya border in Karbi Anglong district and subsequent developments in the neighbouring State led the CCS to review the situation.
The CCS also discussed about the escalating tension in Manipur following the killing of yet another youth by the Assam Rifles recently. The Centre is keeping a close eye on the developments in the State least it flares up all-over again, sources said.
Meanwhile, all-powerful general secretary of the NSCN (I-M), Th.Muivah has toned down his vitriolic against the Government of India and denied news reports that he was fed up with the manner in which negotiations were going on.
Muivah, who is leaving for Amsterdam on July 4, told a news portal that negotiations between NSCN and the Government of India were now progressing satisfactorily. I never said that I would go back. I am happy with the manner in which the government is responding to our position. They ar! e now seeing things from our point of view, he claimed.
I am not getting restive of the prolonged negotiations. I understand that such things do take time. If things progress on positive note then I would come back to continue negotiations after some break, he said.
He admitted that the Pakistan ISI has had played some role in the Nagaland insurgency but claimed that it may not be as significant as is being made out by the Indian Government.
From Our Staff Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 24 The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today reviewed the Naga peace process and the law and order situation in the North-East. Briefing newsmen, Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee said that the meeting of the CCS today reviewed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East. Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, heads the CCS and meeting today was attended by Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, Defence Minister and Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram.
According to sources, the CCS meeting while reviewing the Naga peace process explored the various options available to the Centre to break the logjam. The Centre, however, is keeping its cards close its chest and keeping its future plans under wraps.
Sources further added that the CCS meeting took stock of the inter-State boundary dispute involvin! g Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh. The tension along Assam-Meghalaya border in Karbi Anglong district and subsequent developments in the neighbouring State led the CCS to review the situation.
The CCS also discussed about the escalating tension in Manipur following the killing of yet another youth by the Assam Rifles recently. The Centre is keeping a close eye on the developments in the State least it flares up all-over again, sources said.
Meanwhile, all-powerful general secretary of the NSCN (I-M), Th.Muivah has toned down his vitriolic against the Government of India and denied news reports that he was fed up with the manner in which negotiations were going on.
Muivah, who is leaving for Amsterdam on July 4, told a news portal that negotiations between NSCN and the Government of India were now progressing satisfactorily. I never said that I would go back. I am happy with the manner in which the government is responding to our position. They ar! e now seeing things from our point of view, he claimed.
I am not getting restive of the prolonged negotiations. I understand that such things do take time. If things progress on positive note then I would come back to continue negotiations after some break, he said.
He admitted that the Pakistan ISI has had played some role in the Nagaland insurgency but claimed that it may not be as significant as is being made out by the Indian Government.
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