Muivah to meet Chidamabaram Ahead of Next Week's Naga Peace Talks

New Delhi, Jul 23 : As the Naga insurgent group NSCN (I-M) and the Centre get prepared to have a crucial round of talks here next week, the outfit's general secretary T Muivah met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday and will meet home minister P Chidambaram on Friday.

The formal talks on the peace process will be held with the Centre's interlocutor R S Pandey and senior home ministry officials. Muivah has come here after wrapping up his nearly one-and-a-half-month-long peace mission across Nagaland.

Undertaking the peace mission that began in first week of June, the Naga leader visited all the districts of Nagaland except Mon and called for reconciliation and understanding among the Nagas based on the principle of "forget and forgive" and to speak in one voice before the government.

So far, over 60 rounds of peace talks have been held between the two sides during the course of a 13-year peace process that was initiated in August 1997.