Stating that it had high hope that years of political negotiations between Government of India and Naga negotiators was about to be brought to its logical solution, Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) appealed to all negotiators to be magnanimous and bold enough to hummer out the positive result without hesitation or delay and within the scheduled time. NTC particularly appealed to the Naga negotiators to contain any amount of irritations at the moment for the sake of paving the way for solution and not to be reactionary as this could boomerang on “us”.
NTC also reiterated its adopted stand that when land integration was not possible at the moment, “we cannot opt for population integration”. As and when Nagas attained sovereignty and integration, there would be demographic changes, but till then the State of Nagaland would remain as it was rather than Nagaland seizing to exist. This was stated in a press release by NTC president Toniho Yepthomi and general secretary Nribemo Ngullie.