The UPA government will hold talks with Naga separatist leaders here on Tuesday in an effort to work out a peace deal, amid indications that neither side is willing to give up entirely on its stated position. While the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) says it would not compromise on the demand for an independent state in northeastern India, the home ministry sources said demands 
for sovereignty or integration of Naga rebel groups were not feasible. However, NSCN-IM leaders Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, who arrived in the Capital on Saturday from a self-imposed exile in the Netherlands, appeared hopeful that some headway will be made at the talks, but said the group will not give up on its “right to freedom. Sorry, we cannot withdraw that.” The group’s demand for a “Greater Nagaland” would unite 1.2 million Nagas. “We are hopeful, very optimistic...but no compromise on our right to sovereignty. We have not given up and will never give up the demand for our independence,” V S Atem, convener of the steering committee of the NSCN-IM told a news agency. The Naga leaders are expected to talk with the government’s new pointsman R S Pandey ahead of a likely meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P Chidambaram.
For further: economictimes.indiatimes.com/Politics/Nation/UPA-Naga-leaders-to-hold-parleys-tomorrow/articleshow/5629618.cms
for sovereignty or integration of Naga rebel groups were not feasible. However, NSCN-IM leaders Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, who arrived in the Capital on Saturday from a self-imposed exile in the Netherlands, appeared hopeful that some headway will be made at the talks, but said the group will not give up on its “right to freedom. Sorry, we cannot withdraw that.” The group’s demand for a “Greater Nagaland” would unite 1.2 million Nagas. “We are hopeful, very optimistic...but no compromise on our right to sovereignty. We have not given up and will never give up the demand for our independence,” V S Atem, convener of the steering committee of the NSCN-IM told a news agency. The Naga leaders are expected to talk with the government’s new pointsman R S Pandey ahead of a likely meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P Chidambaram.For further: economictimes.indiatimes.com/Politics/Nation/UPA-Naga-leaders-to-hold-parleys-tomorrow/articleshow/5629618.cms
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