Road map is set for integration of all Naga-inhabited areas, claims NSCN-IM

DIMAPUR: The Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) on November 11 once again reiterated their stand and asserted the Naga political identity as a 'nation' and to stick to the Framework Agreement and mutually agreed on competencies -- including the Naga national flag and Constitution. On the integration of all Naga territories, the NSCN-(IM) said, " a road map has been worked out for its materialization through the political process in a transitional way. Pan Naga Hoho, a cultural and social body with a separate budget allocated by the Government of India will also be created."

The NSCN (IM) stated that the historic Framework Agreement that was officially signed on August 3rd, 2015 "reaffirmed the recognized unique history of the Nagas and identity of the Nagas. It recognizes the sovereignty of the Nagas and thus the political identity of the Naga people was established with clinical conviction."

‘Agreement also says that Nagas are the owners of their land and all natural and mineral resources above and beneath the land belong to the Nagas. Significantly, the Government of India has also recognised the legitimate right of the Nagas to integration of all Naga territories’, the NSCN (IM) said.

‘With regards to the contentious issue of Naga flag and Yehzabo (constitution), it was unbecomingly unfortunate that some leaders from the Indian side are making issue out of it. Indeed, flag and constitution are the inherent characteristics of our recognized sovereignty and identity.’

‘From day one when the Indo-Naga political talks took off after the 1997 Indo-Naga ceasefire, our hon’ble Ato Kilonser Mr. Th. Muivah who is the Chief Negotiator leave no stone unturned to assert the Naga political identity as a nation. In the following years as the talk progressed he proved his point on innumerable occasions to clinch his argument to project the Naga peoples’ stand from the historical and political perspective. He made things very clear before the Indian Representatives that small and weak they may be, the Nagas are also a unique nation among nations,’ the NSCN (IM) stated.

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Notwithstanding the stand of the Government of India on Naga flag and constitution that is wildly vacillating, it is needless to say that NSCN will stick to Framework Agreement and mutually agreed to competencies including Naga national flag and constitution, the insurgent organization added.

Incorporating Naga flag and constitution will undoubtedly solve not only the Naga political problem, but it will also solve the chronic Indo-Naga political problem and they will tighten their lasting relationship, the NSCN (IM) further added.

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