IMPHAL: Union home secretary G K Pillai has said India and Myanmar will soon launch a "coordinated operation" to flush out N-E militants operating from the neighbouring country. The decision was taken during Pillai's meeting with his Myanmarese counterpart, Brig-Gen. Phon Swe, in Yangon on February 18. At the meeting, the home secretary said, the Indian delegation had given Myanmarese officials maps of rebel camps located in Myanmar.
Rebels belonging to the United National Liberation Front, People's Liberation Army - the armed wing of the Revolutionary People's Front - NSCN (I-M) are putting up in Myanmar, he said.
"Since the Myanmarese army is facing certain difficulties, the coordinated operation has been planned. Indian authorities will extend necessary assistance to their Myanmarese counterparts for this, Similar assistance to the Bangladesh army has been quite fruitful," Pillai said.
NSCN-IM leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah arrive in Delhi
28 Feb, 2010 PTI
NEW DELHI: NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah arrived here on Saturday night around 11.30 to hold talks with the Centre's new pointsman and are likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Swu and Muivah, who had last visited India in December 2006 and held talks with government leaders, are coming to carry forward the dialogue process on the vexed Naga issue a fortnight after the government appointed R S Pandey, a former petroleum secretary, as the new interlocutor on Naga talks.
Earlier in the day, Union home secretary G K Pillai told newsmen in Dimapur, "Muivah accepted the invitation from the government of India communicated through the new interlocutor R S Pandey to resume the peace dialogue."
The two top Naga rebel leaders, who are based in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, are likely to call on the Prime Minister and home minister P Chidambaram, official sources said here on Saturday.
Ahead of meetings with political leadership, the Naga leaders will hold talks with Pandey on March two and three, they said.
The two leaders were also expected to visit Nagaland besides addressing to the issue of clashes between the cadres of NSCN-IM and its rival NSCN (Khaplang), which resulted in unrest in the recent past.
Sources in the government said they would try and iron out the differences with the Centre on key issues, including the sovereignty demand under which the NSCN-IM has proposed a federal relationship with the Indian Union.
28 Feb, 2010 PTI
NEW DELHI: NSCN-IM chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah arrived here on Saturday night around 11.30 to hold talks with the Centre's new pointsman and are likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Swu and Muivah, who had last visited India in December 2006 and held talks with government leaders, are coming to carry forward the dialogue process on the vexed Naga issue a fortnight after the government appointed R S Pandey, a former petroleum secretary, as the new interlocutor on Naga talks.
Earlier in the day, Union home secretary G K Pillai told newsmen in Dimapur, "Muivah accepted the invitation from the government of India communicated through the new interlocutor R S Pandey to resume the peace dialogue."
The two top Naga rebel leaders, who are based in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, are likely to call on the Prime Minister and home minister P Chidambaram, official sources said here on Saturday.
Ahead of meetings with political leadership, the Naga leaders will hold talks with Pandey on March two and three, they said.
The two leaders were also expected to visit Nagaland besides addressing to the issue of clashes between the cadres of NSCN-IM and its rival NSCN (Khaplang), which resulted in unrest in the recent past.
Sources in the government said they would try and iron out the differences with the Centre on key issues, including the sovereignty demand under which the NSCN-IM has proposed a federal relationship with the Indian Union.
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