Dimapur, Nov. 4 (EMN): The United Naga Tribes Association on Border Areas (UNTABA) has asked the NSCN (IM) to resolve the “long-pending” boundary issue between Nagaland and Assam – inter alia re-transfer of Naga lands in Assam to the present state of Nagaland.
In a press release issued on Saturday, the UNTABA informed that a representation to the ‘ato kilonser’ of the NSCN (IM) was sent following a meeting between the association’s representatives and NSCN (IM) functionaries led by ‘kilo kilonser,’ Hukavi Yepthomi at Hotel Saramati on Saturday.
In a representation to the kilonser of the NSCN (IM), Th Muivah, the UNTABA stated that it considers “the abject failure of the government of India to honour the ‘9 Points Agreement’ for the restoration of Naga Llands to its original owner as the genesis of the emergence of Naga nationalism and the protracted Naga-Indo political imbroglio’.
“Having understood the present Naga-Indo political situation as an opportune moment for the Naga people, we strongly reiterate our demand that the long pending issue of land and boundary between the state of Nagaland and Assam inter alia re-transfer of Naga lands in Assam to the present state of Nagaland (Nagalim) be settled at the political level based on the historical facts and official records so as to make the final Naga-Indo political settlement an acceptable and honourable to the Naga people.
“While appreciating the framework agreement, we firmly believe that your leadership will sincerely honour the historical and traditional rights of the Naga people over our lands and territories which was agreed upon in ‘9 Points Agreement’ by both the political entity of the Naga people, the then Naga National Council and the government of India, represented by the then Governor Akbar Ali Hydari and Premier Gobinath Bordoloi of the then Assam Province in June 26 - 29, 1947 at Kohima, the sole political reason on which the Naga people joined the Union of India,” it stated.
