Overview

• The Aug. 26 talks in New Delhi between an 11-member Naga delegation and a Central team led by A. K. Mishra ended without a resolution.
• Naga leaders demanded reinstatement of the Free Movement Regime and an immediate halt to India–Myanmar border fencing, pressing for boundary correction up to Myanmar’s Chindwin River.
• Officials from the Home Ministry, Intelligence Bureau and Border Management defended fencing and FMR curbs on national security grounds and said construction would not be stopped.
• The United Naga Council will reconvene in Senapati to decide its agitation plan, with sources indicating a likely indefinite economic blockade of national highways.
• A UNC memorandum to the Manipur Governor warned that scrapping the FMR and erecting fences disrupt longstanding ethnic, familial and economic ties across the border.