6 member NSCN-IM delegation leaves for Bangkok talks

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

Official sources said the delegation, led by senior NSCN-IM leader Brig V Atem, will comprise of Q. Chishi Swu, Q. Tuccu, A P Shimrey, Tongmeth Konyak and Lungalang. 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.

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