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Both the Centre and the NSCN-IM leadership have asked Zoramthanga to participate in the Naga peace process and he has already met NSCN-IM general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah in the Thai capital Bangkok.
The Mizoram chief minister, however, said his role would be to create mutual trust between the sides. "I am not going to help in setting terms and conditions for the dialogue," he said.
Meanwhile, former Union home secretary K Padmanabhaiah, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's special emissary for the talks, said on Sunday that there had been no 'dramatic development' so far.
The talks are making steady progress, Padmanabhaiah said in Chiangmai, northern Thailand, after the latest round on Friday and Saturday.
He said there was a better understanding of each other's problems and the two sides were "trying to work out a solution to the complex issue". They will meet again at the end of June.
The ceasefire with the NSCN-IM, which expires on July 31, was not taken up at these talks but could figure in the next meeting, Padmanabhaiah said.
NSCN-IM leaders Muivah, Isak Chisi Swu and Rai Sing represented the organisation at the talks. Sing said both sides were committed to "hammer out tangible solutions to the issue", but did not elaborate.
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