The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN), through its Ministry of Alee Affairs (Foreign Affairs), issued a press release on August 25, 2025, reiterating its position on the ongoing Indo-Naga political peace process and declaring that the final settlement must rest on the “letter and spirit” of earlier agreements recognizing Nagalim’s unique history and sovereignty.
Tracing the roots of the dialogue, NSCN recalled that the peace process with the Government of India (GoI) was initiated on August 1, 1997, “at the Prime Minister level, without pre-condition and in a third neutral country,” thereby acknowledging that the “Indo-Naga issue is a political conflict requiring a political solution.”
The group emphasized that “no past short-term agreements on the Indo-Naga issue are final, including the so-called 16-Point agreement and the formation of the present Nagaland state (1963) and the 1975 Shillong Accord.” These, the statement said, are “not accepted by Nagalim and the Naga people” and amount to “an outright betrayal of the Nagalim nationalist movement for political independence.”
On the framework of negotiations, NSCN highlighted the Amsterdam Joint Communiqué of July 11, 2002, and the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, which it said recognized that “sovereignty lies with the people” and envisaged the “sharing of sovereign power.” Referring to Chief Political Negotiator Th. Muivah’s Independence Day address on August 14, the group reiterated that “an enduring inclusive new relationship of peaceful co-existence of the two entities can be realized respecting and honoring the letter and spirit” of these agreements.
The statement also underlined the centrality of the Nagalim flag and constitution, declaring that the national flag “is not a social and cultural flag, nor is it a ‘totem’ or a ‘piece of cloth’” but rather “represents the Naga nation and shall fly in the institution that represents the Naga nation.” Similarly, it stressed that the Nagalim constitution “is its national constitution, not some ‘basic law’ or a ‘Yehzabo’ without the connotation and significance of a national constitution.”
Reaffirming its official stance, NSCN declared: “The Nagas do not acknowledge any agreements signed under the constitution of India.” It added that Nagalim’s freedom “cannot be achieved from the position of fear and servitude mindsets,” asserting that sovereignty, territory, flag, and constitution “given by the Lord God Almighty are non-negotiable.”
The release warned that “any organizations who signs an agreement that deliberately and consciously ignores and omits the Nagalim national principle on sovereignty and Nagalim national flag and national constitution is betraying the Naga people and the Naga nation.”
