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Meghalaya : Peace talks with ANVC |
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The Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC), a Garo militant outfit, has prodded the state government to speed up the process of initiating a political dialogue on its demands for a Greater Garoland.
The outfit had signed a ceasefire agreement with the Centre and the state government last year.
The peace process with the ANVC is already a year old and there has been no headway in terms of initiating the actual peace process.
Except for half a dozen joint monitoring group meetings between government officials and leaders of the outfit, allegations and counter-allegations of truce violations have dominated the ceasefire period.
The ANVC signed the ceasefire agreement with the Centre on July 3 last year for an initial period of six months, which was later extended to a year.
ANVC joint secretary Janggam Momin and its publicity secretary Arist Sengsrang Sangma told a group of journalists at its ceasefire liaison office at Alotgre on September 4 that despite the aberrations, the outfit is sincerely pursuing the peace process so as to work towards a political dialogue with the Centre and the state government. The ANVC leaders said the outfit was eager to speed up the peace process so that the political dialogue could begin.
The state government has often indicated that the actual talks with the outfit could be initiated provided the ANVC top leadership expresses interest in joining the peace process like its other members.
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