Muivah meets PM, PC to push deal

New Delhi, March 2: NSCN(I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday to take the Naga peace process forward. Mr Muivah and four other Naga leaders are on a 10-day visit to India for peace talks with government interlocutor R.S. Pandey.

Mr Muivah, who met Dr Singh at his residence, said he was serious about ending the long insurgency. This was his second meeting with the PM in five years. “If the Centre is serious, we will talk,” he said. “If the talks do not yield any result, then we will say no.”
In the first round of talks with Mr Pandey later, the NSCN(I-M) is learnt to have submitted a list of 30 demands, which includes “sovereignty” for Nagaland. Among other issues are taxation matters and preservation of cultural heritage, sources said. Mr Muivah in also in the process of renewing his expired passport.

Age Correspondent