The Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) facilitated a meeting between the Naga apex bodies and Churches on Monday to explain and discuss the statement “Nagas Are Moving Ahead”. FNR informed in a press release that at the meeting the gathered strongly and urgently appealed to Naga National Political Group (NNPG) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) (NSCN-IM) “to come to a meeting without delay”.

The groups were also urged “to listen to the call of the Naga people” and honor their commitments of: “September Joint Accordant”, 14 September, 2023; the “Kolkata Meeting”, 18 October, 2022; and “Nagas are Moving Ahead”, 14 January, 2023.

FNR also informed that the meeting also called for cooperation “without compulsion” from all Naga people. It emphasized that “Our cooperation must emerge voluntarily by respecting every cultural (tribal) group and political organizations.” Changes are a fact—politics and political forms are also changing, it said while stressing that the people must acknowledging, cooperating and respecting each other. “The Nagas at large shall not allow room for undermining nor overbearing anyone. In everything, we seek peace with all and for all,” it declared.

Further, during the meeting, it was also decided by the tribal bodies and Church to organise events to put pressure on the Government of India to accelerate the stalled Naga political agreements before the general elections.

“We call upon Naga people and respected citizens of the Land to render support to the forms of transformative changes being dreamt of in accordance to global relevance,” the Forum for Naga Reconciliation and the bodies appealed.