Naga leaders likely to hold talks with PM on Dec 7 Sunday, December 5 2004 16:20 Hrs (IST) - World Time
New Delhi:
Leaders of NSCN-IM (National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah), the major Naga insurgent outfit, Isak Swu and T Muivah are likely to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on December 7 in a bid to take the ongoing peace process in Nagaland further.
Swu and Muivah, who are scheduled to reach New Delhi tonight (Dec 5, 2004) from Amasterdam, are expected to meet Home Minister Shivraj Patil tomorrow, official sources said.
The Naga leaders "are coming to India to hold a continued and sustained dialogue" with New Delhi, the sources said.
The Naga leaders had visited India last year after a gap of over three decades and held peace parleys with then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his deputy L K Advani.
After a week's stay in New Delhi, Swu and Muivah would visit Nagaland and meet NSCN cadres there. Thereafter they will again come back to Delhi to carry on the dialogue with Centre's interlocutor on the Naga peace process K Padmanabhaiah and other top officials, sources said adding, they will be in India for a few weeks.