New Delhi: The government of India is all set to bring an end to the decades-long Naga peace talks before Christmas.
The Prime Minister Office (PMO) is believed to have been working with the Home Ministry for an amicable solution of the Naga peace talks.
Sources in the government said that in the last talks between Government of India interlocutor RN Ravi and Naga leaders held in July, it was conveyed to the latter that the government will come with a solution very soon.
The solution, however, will not include the Naga inhabited areas of Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, a demand raised by the Naga leaders.
"Government of India had made it clear that there will be no compromise on the territorial boundary. However, the government might announce a cultural council for the Nagas comprising Naga inhabited areas of Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh," said Deepak Diwan, a senior journalist.
Diwan was closely monitoring the Indo Naga peace talks for the last several years.
The Nagas are at present demanding for a separate Naga flag and constitution. The Indo-Naga peace talks started in 1997 after the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) came to a ceasefire with the government of India.
NSCN (IM) is known as the mother of insurgency in Northeast.
Significantly, a "framework agreement" signed between the outfit and government on August 3, 2015, has taken the Indo Naga political talks to a very crucial stage.
With the appointment of RN Ravi as the Nagaland Governor, it is expected that the solution of the Indo Naga peace talks would come before coming Christmas.
Being an interlocutor, Ravi was negotiating with the Naga leaders for the last several years.
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