6 member NSCN-IM delegation for Bangkok talks

Kohima, Jul 24: A six-member delegation of the NSCN-IM will leave Nagaland today for Bangkok to assist their Chairman Isac Chishi Swu and General Secretary Th Muivah during the peace talks and extension of current cease-fire with the Centre, scheduled to begin on July 28.

Official sources said the delegation will be led by senior NSCN-IM leader Brig V. Atem, while the other members will be Q.

Chishi Swu, Q. Tuccu, A P Shimrey, Tongmeth Konyak and Lungalang will assist the leaders in the meeting. The Governmet, on the other hand, will be led by the leader of the Ministerial team Oscar Fernandes, Interlocutor K. Padmanabhaiah and senior officials and bureaucrats.

Meanwhile, the NSCN-IM has denied that it has threatened to abrogate the nine-year-old ceasefire with the Centre if it fails to modify truce ground rules.

The extension of the cease-fire will only be decided in the July 28 and 29 talks in Bangkok.

UNI