NEW DELHI, Dec 19— For the first time in 30 years, major Naga insurgent group leaders, Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, will come to India next week and are likely to hold talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Deputy L K Advani on December 28, highly-placed sources said today, reports PTI. The issue of furthering the peace process with NSCN(I-M) and arrangements for the visit of Swu and Muivah are understood to have been discussed by Centre’s interlocutor K Padmanabhaiah with Advani this evening. The decision to allow the two Naga leaders to come to India follows Centre’s keenness to hold the peace talks by this year-end, the sources said, recalling that NSCN(I-M) had agreed in principle to hold parleys in the country but had demanded that the ban on the outfit, having over 3,000 armed cadres, be lifted and and cases against their leaders withdrawn.
While the ban on NSCN(I-M) was allowed to lapse beyond November 26, cases against Muivah for an alleged plot to assassinate Nagaland Chief Minister S C Jamir have been withdrawn. The sources said nitty-gritty of issuance of Indian passports to the NSCN(I-M) leaders were being worked out and they were likely to be given the travel documents by an Indian mission in Europe Swu and Muivah are expected to arrive here on December 27 from a European country and are likely to be lodged “safely” either in a hotel or a guest house for security reasons, the sources said. “Even though no accord is likely to be reached at the parleys, the talks with highest Indian leadership are expected to provide a major boost to bring peace in Nagaland affected by decades of insurgency,” the sources said.