Ulfa formally offers peace talks to Delhi
AFP, Guwahati
A leading separatist group in India's northeastern state of Assam has made a formal offer of peace talks with New Delhi aimed at ending more than 26 years of insurgency in the region, a mediator said yesterday. The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) wants the talks to be held in Assam rather than in a neutral country as proposed by the Indian government, said Assamese writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami, sought by the outfit to mediate in the talks with New Delhi. Goswami said an Ulfa emissary had late Monday handed over a letter from the group's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa to her for delivery to the Indian government.
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