in the first week of October, National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Khaplang (NSCN-K) remains undecided as to whether it will participate in the NCA inking.
“We have not yet decided on the NCA inking. We have not decided about not signing the NCA, either. Today [September 16], we met with U Aung Min of the UPWC [Union Peace-making Working Committee]. They explained the NCA signing. But we did not tell them yet that we would sign it. This is because we have to report to our chairman. After this, we will go back to our headquarters and conduct a meeting with the chairman and committee members, then we will decide whether we will sign it or not. But now we have not decided yet,” said U Kyaw Wan Sein, member of the NSCN-K central committee, in an interview with IMNA.
The NSCN-K’s central committee members met with the UPWC on September 16 at Myanmar Peace Center, wherein both sides discussed the NCA closure.
After a meeting with the UPWC in Rangoon, on September 17, NSCN-K representatives will go back to its headquarter in Nanyun area and meet with its Chairman S S Khaplang and committee members.
U Kyaw Wan Sein continued to say that the NSCN-K would hold a meeting at its headquarter discussing whether it would it sign the NCA or not.
Regardless of whether the NSCN-K has curently decided to participate in the NCA inking, the UPWC and the MPC believe that the NSCN-K will come to join in the NCA inking in the first week of October.
The NSCN-K is an ethnic armed group that signed a preliminary union-level ceasefire agreement with the government on April 9, 2012.
The NSCN-K is one of the 15 ethnic armed groups invited by the government to sign the NCA.
