NSCN(K) not averse to resume ceasefire : NMA

NSCN(K) is not averse to resume ceasefire with the Centre and is also not against or in favour of the recently signed 'Peace Accord', said a delegation of Naga Mothers Association(NMA) which met the outfit's top leaders recently.
NMA advisor Rosemary Dzuvichu today said the meeting with NSCN(K), which had unilaterally called off the ceasefire, and the four-member delegation of the association was held on August 31 at Pangsha in Tuengsang district on the international border with Myanmar.
NMA is an apex body of women affiliated with different tribes in Nagaland.
She said during the meeting NMA had appealed to NSCN(K) top leaders to renew the ceasefire and said that armed confrontations and counter killings had affected the people in every corner of Nagaland after the abrogation of the ceasefire.

The NMA, she told, had told the NSCN(K) leadership that unless peaceful dialogue was opted for Nagas would be in "continuous problem".
On the recent signing of the Peace Accord, Dzuvichu said NSCN(K) leaders told the delegation that they were neither for or against it.
On the concern over alleged forced recruitment of children, NSCN(K) leaders had assured NMA that the issues discussed would be conveyed to its chairman S S Khaplang.
NMA, she said, had been in touch with the outfit after the abrogation of the ceasefire for a meeting.