New Delhi, Apr 27: Apparently not content with the Centre's efforts to keep the contentious issue of unification of Naga-dominated areas in the backburner, insurgent oufit NSCN (Isak-Muivah) leaders are understood to have conveyed to government representatives their unwillingness to visit India for further talks unless they got some concrete assurance.
This is believed to have been conveyed by National Socialist Council of Nagaland (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary T Muivah to the Centre's special emissaries K Padmanabhaiah and intelligence bureau director K P Singh during four days of parleys from April 8 in Amsterdam.
Swu and Muivah had come here in January this year after a gap of 30 years and met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, several cabinet ministers, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other political leaders during their stay.
Informed sources said today Swu and Muivah have told Padmanabhaiah and Singh that talks with them would, however, continue in third countries like they have been holding in the past five to six years in Thailand, The Netherlands and other places.
They said the ceasefire between the Centre and NSCN (I-M), which came into being in 1997, would also continue. In a bid to take the Naga peace process further, the Centre last
week also agreed to extend by another year ceasfire with NSCN (Khaplang) from April 28. The Centre-NSCN (Khaplang) ceasefire had come into force in 2001.
Bureau Report
