India, Naga rebels extend ceasefire
Afp, Guwahati
Indian government negotiators and rebels from the northeastern state of Nagaland indefinitely extended a ceasefire yesterday, a joint statement said. But the rebels, who have been fighting since 1947 to create a "Greater Nagaland," urged New Delhi to come up with a solution to end the longest-running political feud since India's independence from Britain. "Now it depends on New Delhi to come up with a mutually-acceptable solution or else the ceasefire could be abrogated immediately," said V Horam, a leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN). The joint statement was issued at the venue of the talks in insurgency-wracked Nagaland state and follows 50 previous rounds of peace talks. "After reviewing the status of the talks, it was decided to extend the ceasefire indefinitely," it said.
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