“The issue of Naga sovereignty ... is to be decided by all the Nagas from all the Naga inhabited areas”
Zingkaling Khamti, February 13 (MExN): The Council of Naga Affairs (CNA) today stated that it prays and hopes that “reunification and national reconciliation” of Naga people from India and Myanmar will be achieved soon with the “right approach and participation of the concerned stakeholders.”
It welcomed the opportunity to work with Naga organizations based in India for a shared future. A statement from the CNA press bureau today informed that the formation of the Council is to “strengthen the role and participation” of Nagas from Myanmar in the larger interest of Naga people from both the countries that “compel us to stand as two separate peoples so that reunified homeland of the Naga people will be realized at God’s appointed time.”
“Having best understood the fragile nature of Indo-Burma-Naga conflict from the eastern sector, the Council is rendered with the responsibility by the public to safeguard, guide and represent the people in peaceful and non-violent manner,” the CNA noted.
It also gave the message that the Council is the apex body of the Naga people in Myanmar as endorsed by the Naga public in the Conference of the Naga Nationals held on November 27 through December 1, 2014 at ZingkalingKhamti, the ancestral headquarter of the Naga people in Myanmar.
“Council of Naga Affairs is neither an armed group nor a Myanmar government puppet but a pure and genuine civilian representative body of the Naga people, that came into being with the unanimous voice of the Nagas from all walks of life during the Conference, mandated to represent wishes and desires of the Naga people, within and outside of Myanmar-made Naga Self-Administered Zone, in the matters of social, cultural, economic, political and religious affairs of the Naga people in Eastern Nagaland, Myanmar,” it noted in its press statement.
On sovereignty, the Council reiterated that “the issue of Naga sovereignty would not be decided by the Nagas in Myanmar alone since the Council is convinced that it is to be decided by all the Nagas from all the Naga inhabited areas.”
The Council further stated that it is committed to “transparency and accountability” in any matter that involves the Council on behalf of the Naga people in Myanmar.
