Naga Hoho, the apex  tribal council and Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), said that both would work together to find a just and final settlement to the Naga political problem, and appealed to all to exercise maximum restraint ‘‘even in the face of extreme provacations’’.‘‘We are committed to peace and to finding a just and final settlement of the Naga issue,’’ Hoho president M. Vero and NBCC director (peace affairs) Rev Kari Longchar said in a joint statement.

Expressing dismay over the Centre’s decision to limit the ceasefire in Nagaland, they said it had ‘‘naturally sparked anger in some quarters’’. ‘‘The Nagas will not tolerate anyone derailing the peace process, and therefore, let there be no provocations neither from security forces nor the NSCN (I-M),’’ they said, and urged both sides to refrain from taking ‘‘any hasty and  precipitate action’’. Calling upon the agitators not to put blockades or dharnas on national highways, their statement said, ‘‘Show how we feel.