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The Naga peace talks, initiated in August 1997, have entered a crucial phase with the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah faction) and the Centre coming to an agreement on three vital points.
According to highly placed sources in the Union home ministry, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's emissary, former Union home secretary K Padmanabhaiah, and the two top leaders of the NSCN-IM, Thuingaleng Muivah and Isak Chisi Swu, agreed at their meeting in Thailand last week that:
Last week, a four-day meeting of the NSCN-IM leadership with members of the Church, social workers, representatives of Naga non-governmental organisations, including the Naga Hoho, and Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga (who acted as the intermediary) in Bangkok endorsed the peace process, considerably brightening its prospects.
Although the NSCN-IM has been observing a truce with the government since August 1997, talks have so far remained confined to technicalities.
The meeting in Thailand, attended by over 70 different Naga leaders, ended with a call to all Nagas to come forward to support the peace process to ensure a solution of the problem.
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