{"id":126930,"date":"2024-09-05T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=126930"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:39:01","slug":"assam-and-meghalaya-to-restart-crucial-border-dispute-talks-this-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=126930","title":{"rendered":"Assam and Meghalaya to Restart Crucial Border Dispute Talks This October!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126755\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/New-Logo-Smal.jpg?resize=198%2C55&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"55\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and Assam Chief Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/Himanta Biswa Sarma\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/span><\/strong><\/a> are set to initiate the second phase of border negotiations next month, aiming to resolve longstanding disputes. Speaking to reporters, Sangma disclosed that he had an informal discussion with Sarma about three weeks to a month ago, during which they decided to hold the next round of talks in October.<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_126931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126931\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Assam and Meghalaya to Restart Crucial Border Dispute Talks This October:\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-126931 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG-20240905-WA0011.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Assam and Meghalaya to Restart Crucial Border Dispute Talks\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG-20240905-WA0011.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG-20240905-WA0011.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG-20240905-WA0011.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG-20240905-WA0011.jpg?resize=750%2C422&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Assam and Meghalaya to Restart Crucial Border Dispute Talks This October:<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The preliminary discussions for the second phase of the inter-state boundary talks occurred on May 23, 2023. The talks address six contentious areas: Langpih, Borduar, Nongwah-Mawtamur, Deshdoomreah, Block-I &amp; Block-II, and Khanduli-Psiar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Meghalaya\u2019s Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong announced in July that Chief Minister Sangma will soon organize a meeting with Assam\u2019s CM Sarma to formulate a strategic plan for the border discussions. In parallel, inspections of the disputed areas are still in progress, as per Tynsong.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma are set to initiate the second phase of border negotiations next month, aiming to resolve longstanding disputes. Speaking to reporters, Sangma disclosed that he had an informal discussion with Sarma about three weeks to a month ago, during which they decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"News Desk:"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200],"tags":[30564,30565,30566],"class_list":["post-126930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assam","tag-assam-and-meghalaya-to-restart","tag-crucial-border-dispute","tag-talks-this-october"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":157418,"url":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=157418","url_meta":{"origin":126930,"position":0},"title":"Assam-Meghalaya Taxi Standoff Finally Resolved \u2014 Tourism Minister","author":"ASSAM TIMES POST","date":"August 25, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The prolonged standoff between tourist taxi associations of Meghalaya and Assam \u2014 triggered by road blockades after violence on August 19 \u2014 has been resolved following intervention at the chief ministerial level, Meghalaya Tourism Minister Timothy D. 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