Dimapur, October 6 (MExN): The Council of Naga Baptist Churches (CNBC) today called the September 18 summit in Dimapur among the Naga underground group as “not only the greatest of the news of our time but September 18 Summit 2010 will become a significant historical land-mark in the history of the Naga freedom struggle.” The “Naga leadership” is urged to have a pragmatic perception to the Nagas’ history and situation and strive in voluntary discipline and dialogue.
“Claiming to have the mandate of the people, our honorable patriots and leadership separated into nearly half-a-dozen groups which in turn divide people as well. For decades, there was no meeting point. Differences with conditions and pre-conditions prevailed, hardly realizing that more problems than solution were created which rendered the vexed Naga political issue taking its own flight in the air without control for landing,” stated the CNBC in a message. The church organization said that the past several decades have seen the darkest and most chaotic situation of blood and pain.
“Numerous efforts of peace initiatives were made notably among other the Naga Summit 1992 in Dimapur and the Atlanta meet 1997 all of which defied desired result without collective leadership of all groups and oneness in peoples power at home,” the CNBC said. The CNBC congratulates and expresses appreciation to the leadership the Naga groups and to the Forum for Naga Reconciliation for relentlessly working together on the difficult issue.
“Many more challenges and thornier issues may still be ahead requiring increased measure of intelligence and higher levels of common thought in the interest of our historic homeland and its people,” the CNBC said.
The “Naga leadership” shall be considered “not on the basics of the past nor of the tribe and community” but on the basis of character, integrity and quality, the church said. “We need to give pragmatic perception to our history and situation.
We need to strive for stronger cooperation, stronger voluntary discipline and an active engagement in an effective dialogue to resolves issues ahead,” the CNBC said.
“We there urge the signatories of the Covenant of Reconciliation and the September Summit to remain faithfully committed to the historic Covenant of Reconciliation, COR,” the message stated in encouragement.
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