{"id":207437,"date":"2022-12-21T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=207437"},"modified":"2022-12-21T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:37:23","slug":"no-breakthrough-likely-in-naga-peace-talks-before-christmas-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/no-breakthrough-likely-in-naga-peace-talks-before-christmas-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"No breakthrough likely in Naga peace talks before Christmas: Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KOHIMA, 20 Dec:<\/strong> Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio said no breakthrough is likely to be achieved in the ongoing Naga peace talks before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naga negotiators have returned from New Delhi and &#8220;no breakthrough is likely to be achieved before Christmas as talks will resume only after this festive season,&#8221; he said on Monday, on the sidelines of a programme in Chiephobozou, on the outskirts of Kohima.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On contesting the assembly elections in Nagaland due early next year, he said that the state government has already told the Naga groups that if a solution is not achieved, the state administration must not be blamed as it is only the facilitator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have told them that when the election will be announced, we have to participate in it and that should not be misunderstood,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rio said elected representatives have decided that no campaigning will be done till the festive season is over as the 60-member assembly is together in seeking a solution to the Naga political issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union government has been holding separate talks with the NSCN (IM) and the Working Committee of Naga National Political Groups (NNPGs) since 1997 and 2017, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It inked the framework agreement with the NSCN (IM) in August 2015, and the agreed position with NNPGs in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While NNPGs have agreed to accept a solution and continue the dialogue, the NSCN (IM) has been rigid on its demand for a separate flag and constitution for the Nagas, which has been delaying a final solution. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOHIMA, 20 Dec: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio said no breakthrough is likely to be achieved in the ongoing Naga peace talks before Christmas. Naga negotiators have returned from New Delhi and &#8220;no breakthrough is likely to be achieved before Christmas as talks will resume only after this festive season,&#8221; he said on Monday, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}