The Hague (The Netherlands): The peace talks between the Centre and National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCNI-M), have entered the third day on Saturday.
The NSCNI-M is negotiating their demands with the Centre during the three-day talks, which began in Guwahati on Thursday.
Leaders of the NSCNI-M submitted their 30-point "charter of demands" to a group of ministers during their talks.
"We have put up our demand for a federal arrangement between India and Nagaland," V Horam, a senior leader of the council said by phone on Saturday.
"The kind of relationship between the two will be worked out in the course of the next rounds of discussions, so that it could be incorporated in the constitutions of India and Nagaland."
Union Minister Oscar Fernandes, who is representing the Centre along with Union Minister of State for Home Affairs S Reghupathy and Minister of State at the PMO Prithviraj Chouhan, has expressed satisfaction over the pace of ongoing dialogue.
This is the first time that a group of ministers has been constituted by the Government to look into the Naga peace process and holding talks with the rebels.
Fernandes said that they were discussing the ongoing ceasefire in Nagaland. "But the issue of extension of the truce, which is due to end on July 31, was not taken up in the meeting," he added.
The peace negotiator, K Padmanabhiah, was also present at the meeting while chairman Isak Chishi Swu and General Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah represented the NSCNI-M.
The Centre began talks with the NSCNI-M in 1997 after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire.
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