IMPHAL, Jan 28 NNN : The United Naga Council (UNC) has given the government of India a time frame of February 17 to initiate the 5th round of ‘tripatite talks’ or else it will start taking up its course of agitation.
In a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today signed by its president L Adani and its general secretary Gaidon Kamei, the UNC said that should the requested response be not received in time it will have to take up course of actions in protests against the government of India’s disrespect and undermining the democratic process of dialogue and inaction in addressing the constitutional and democratic rights of the Nagas in Manipur.
“We refer to our memorandum of November 27, 2012 jointly signed by the United Naga Council(UNC) and 22 other Naga frontal organisations and constituent tribe units urging your good office for an early and honourable settlement of the Naga political issue based on the recognition of the “unique history and situation of the Nagas. After manhandling of Momoko by SS Lt col Livingstone on December 18 , 2012 main target was to disturb the celebration of Christmas it was alleged. A localized incident, which had no political or communal implication has been exploited and blown out of proportion. The UNC also said its concern is that the settlement of the issue is being delayed even after more than 15 years of negotiation by the GoI, which seems to be subjecting the process to the approval of a state of the Union which is not a party to the process.
The 4th round of tripartite talk had concluded with a pronouncement that the next round of talk would be held very soon in a hill district of Manipur.
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