Colombo, Aug 10: A Sri Lanka minister doubling up as a peace negotiator has told Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he wants to leave the peace negotiating team, a media report here said today. Economic Reforms Minister Milinda Moragoda wants to take a back seat in the peace negotiations and is desirous of quitting the government's peace negotiating team, reported a newspaper today.
The minister was not immediately available for comment. The paper, however, said the Prime Minister had not given the green light for Moragoda to leave the four-member negotiating team.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Tiger rebels are due to hold an internal meeting in Paris next week to decide their response to the government's proposal to set up an interim administration for the island's embattled regions. Officials and diplomatic sources said the LTTE's political wing leader S P Thamilselvan was due to leave for Paris to attend the talks. Bureau Report