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Tigers end talks boycott with blue print for peace
Colombo, Nov 01: Sri Lanka`s Tamil Tiger rebels today announced they would end their eight-month boycott of peace talks and invited the Colombo government to resume negotiations, focused on their recently unveiled blueprint for peace.
Colombo, Nov 01: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels
today announced they would end their eight-month boycott
of peace talks and invited the Colombo government to resume
negotiations, focused on their recently unveiled blueprint
for peace.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said they
asked peacebroker Norway to arrange a fresh meeting with the
government to discuss their historic peace plan, publicly
unveiled today.
LTTE political wing leader S P Thamilselvan told
reporters in the rebel-held town of Kilinochchi that they
Tigers were keen to resume talks. The last round of talks was
held in March in Hakone, Japan.
"We look forward to continuing our dialogue with the
government and to reaching rapid agreement on the creation of
an Interim Self-Governing Authority (ISGA) so as to
effectively bring normalcy and economic development to the
Tamil people in the northeast," Thamilselvan was quoted as
saying on a rebel website.
Bureau Report