The Burmese government has extended an invitation to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) to join the third round of national peace talks in Naypyidaw next month . The Naga rebels, who did not attend either the first or second session of the Union Peace Conference , met yesterday in Yangon with the government-backed Peace Commission headed by Dr. Tin Myo Win. Following that meeting, Burma’s Ministry of Information announced that it was sending an official invitation to the NSCN-K to join January’s summit, known unofficially as the 21st Century Panglong Conference. Although the Naga armed group signed a state-level ceasefire accord with the government in April 2012, it was not a signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement signed between the then Thein Sein administration and eight ethnic armed groups in October 2015. Representatives of the NSCN held a preparatory meeting with the government in July 2016 aimed at paving the way for the Nagas to