New Delhi, Feb 08: Observing that the security situation in the north-east had "improved significantly", Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today voiced confidence that peace talks with Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) would soon yield a "positive agreement". "Negotiations are in progress with BLT. We are confident that our peace talks with BLT will soon yield a positive agreement. We hope that these peace talks would reach a decisive phase in the coming months," he told a chief ministers' conference here on internal security.
Maintaining that the government's policy of sustained talks and negotiations to bring about peace was showing results, Vajpayee recalled the recently-concluded peace talks with National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah).
He said after several rounds of negotiations abroad, talks with Nscn(I-M) leaders, Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, were held for the first time in India.
Tripartite talks between BLT, Centre and Assam government were held here last month. They centered around demarcation of the boundaries of Bodo-dominated areas in Assam for formation of the Bodoland Autonomous Council. Bureau Report