Arunachal CM welcomes Centre's initiative to solve Naga problem

Arunachal Presh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Saturday welcomed Centre's initiative to solve deces-old Naga problem and categorically stated that re will be compromise on territorial integrity of state.

Arunachal Presh government will make clear its stand on Naga peace process to Centre when called for discussion, he said. Welcoming Centres initiative, Khandu said New Delhi is serious to solve issue once for all. We will soon call an all-party meeting to discuss issue besides taking view of or stakeholders. We will submit our decision to Centre before a framework agreement is signed, chief minister said while dressing National Press Day celebration here.

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We are clear in our stand and we want that Naga peace process should t affect state at any cost, he said. central government has alrey rejected terrorist outfit NSCN-IM's demand for unification of Naga inhabited areas in Manipur, Arunachal Presh and Assam.

All three rastern states have vehemently opposed it. union home ministry h said in a statement that before any settlement is arrived at with Naga groups, all stakeholders, including states of Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Presh will be duly consulted and ir concerns will be taken into consideration.

NSCN-IM h demanded 'Nagalim' or Greater Nagaland in which all Naga-inhabited areas in rast would be under one ministrative umbrella. map of 'Nagalim', released by NSCN-IM a few years ago, spres over 1,03,473 sq km beyond 16,527 sq km area of Nagaland. It includes Anjaw, Changlang, Lohit, Longding, Namsai and Tirap districts of Arunachal Presh. NSCN-IM and its rival factions have claimed that se areas, primarily Changlang, Longding and Tirap districts, are dominated by Nagas.

Successive governments in Arunachal Presh have time and again me it clear that y would t compromise on state's territorial integrity. A framework agreement was signed on August 3, 2015 by NSCN-IM leer Thuingaleng Muivah and Centres interlocutor R N Ravi in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. framework agreement came after over 80 rounds of negotiations spanning 18 years, with first breakthrough in 1997 when ceasefire agreement was sealed after deces of insurgency in Nagaland which started soon after Independence in 1947. 

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