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DIMAPUR, December 29
Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) reiterates that there is no better alternative to bring lasting peace among the Nagas than ‘inclusiveness’. It said solution can become honourable and acceptable when all stakeholders are taken into confidence in its ‘pre and post settlement’.
The NTC statement however said the Nagas in general do acknowledge the immense contribution of FNR towards bridging the gaps between NPGs and the achievement of the subsequent calm that had intervened on the otherwise years of internal conflict in Naga society. The Nagas are therefore grateful to FNR for their selfless services rendered towards understanding and peace, it added.
The NTC statement then said that its attention is attracted to a press statement of FNR which appeared in a local daily with specific reference to “FNR is concerned that a settlement that may turn out to be the best for the Nagas under today’s circumstances is in real danger of being characterized only as an Indo-NSCN (IM), not an Indo-Naga settlement. Such an interpretation could give rise to violence”.
The NTC statement said that in the light of the nature of language contained in the above quote, it deems fit to react in the better interest of evolving a lasting peace and peaceful coexistence. “There is no argument on the dialogue that has been going on during the last 18 years between GOI and NSCN (IM) exclusively and not with any other NPGs.” Consequently, the 3rd August 2015 ‘Framework Accord’ was between these two entities, it also stated. Over and above, the general Naga public is not at all aware of the conditions so far agreed upon in the ‘framework’, it added. However, the FNR’s statement is an indicative of its confidence that the ‘settlement’ out of the ‘framework’ will be ‘the best for the Nagas’, the NTC statement further said. This implies that FNR is well aware of the contents of the ‘framework’ and therefore volunteered to vouch and sternly warn the Nagas, it added.
According to NTC, the said dialogue and its ultimate ‘framework’ had excluded the rest of other NPGs, it has to be said likewise and understood so.
“Whereas, FNR has warned that the said process should not be ‘characterized only as an Indo-NSCN (IM)’ but accept it as ‘Indo-Naga settlement’. The parlance contains sufficient calories of imposition including threat that such branding of the ‘framework’ as exclusive ‘could give rise to violence’. It is for sure that there are better vocabularies befitting the role of mediation,” it added.
