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SENAPATI, NOV 12: Following the request by the United Naga Council (UNC) to AK Mishra, Advisor (North East), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to reschedule the date for the next tripartite talks on the Manipur new district creation issue, now the talk has been postponed to November 29, 2024. On November 8, AK Mishra had invited the Naga body to hold the next round of the talk in Senapati on November 13, 2024, at 10 am.
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However, the UNC had expressed its inability to hold the talk on November 13.
On November 10, UNC general secretary Vareiyo Satshang had written to AK Mishra to reschedule the next talk in the fourth week of November 2024, “due to inevitable prior engagement of some members of the UNC talk team on November 13. Responding to the UNC letter, AK Mishra informed the Naga body today that the next round of talk will be held on November 29, 2024 in Senapati.
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It can be recalled that the Manipur new district creation issue tripartite talks involving the Central government, the United Naga Council (UNC) and the Government of Manipur resumed on October 11, 2024, in New Delhi after a long hiatus.
It is also worth noting here that, the previous Government of Manipur had created the seven new districts on December 8, 2016. In protest against that act of the Manipur Government, the UNC had imposed 139 days of economic blockade along the national highways which pass through Manipur. After the lifting of the blockade, the first round of talk was held on March 19, 2017 followed by several rounds of talk.
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