The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) on Thursday made an open call to the signatories of the Covenant of Reconciliation (CoR) to immediately desist from using “violent or extremist language defaming and undermining our shared humanity.”

The appeal has been made amid the war of words between the Working Committee of Naga National Political Groups (WC, NNPGs) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim – Isak and Muiva (NSCN-IM).

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FNR reminded all Naga Political Groups, any individual or group of CoR that was signed on 13 June 2009 and reaffirmed recently on 14 September 2022 (September Joint Accordant), resolving “. . .to refrain from all forms of rhetoric, assumptions, and agendas that are divisive. Such a culture must end immediately.”

FNR asserted that the resolutions of CoR emerged from common convictions that rise above a group’s political purity and self-justification and that it was supported by all Naga apex organizations, the Church and the State Government.

It also highlighted the NNPGs and the NSCN agreement of 14 January 2023, facilitated by FNR, where the two groups “declare our unconditional commitment to collaborate on the basis of our respective agreements, with immediate effect, for the resolution of the Naga historical and political rights with the Government of India.”

“To be sure, let us mark with high definition that “One cannot supersede the law of the Divine,” in whose name we have signed the CoR,” FNR added.

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