06-25-2004, 02:20 PM
<span style='font-size:25pt;line-height:100%'>Date : 2004-06-25
LTTE suddenly cancelled tomorrow's meeting with Sri Lanka armed forces. </span>
Colombo, 25 June: The meeting schedule to be held for tomorrow, Saturday morning 9 am at Akkaraipattun in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka between, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the delegation of Sri Lanka's Special Task Force and the Police is cancelled suddenly.
Reason for the cancellation is not known.
It was reported that LTTE yesterday agreed to resume its regular meetings with Government forces in Batticaloa and Ampara - according to Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) spokesperson Disa Finnboga.
But today Disa Finnaboga said to "Asian Tribune" that the SLMM received a communication from the political office of the LTTE at Ampara "canceling" the proposed meeting agreed earlier to be held for tomorrow.
The SLMM spokesperson said that LTTE has not given any reason for the cancellation of the schedule meeting.
The positive move for the meeting with the Sri Lankan armed forces came only a day after the LTTE said it was putting off meetings with the security forces in protest against alleged government harboring of dissident leader Colonel Karuna Amman.
It is understood that now LTTE is caught up in two minds and they have yet to make a final decision on the future of Peace Talks in the country.
However it is said that the ceasefire is still holding in the country.
Meanwhile Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim is expected to arrive in Colombo on Monday as part of efforts to salvage the island's peace process amid fears of renewed fighting between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels,
Erik Solheim is expected to be in Sri Lanka on a for a four-day visit during which he will meet President Chandrika Kumaratunga and the head of Tigers' political division S.Paramu Thamilselvan.
The sudden cancellation of the talks by the LTTE points to the rebel outfit hardening it position and it is not clear as to how far Erik Soheim might be able to convince the outfit for the resumption of talks with the Government of Sri Lanka.
As the Tamil Tigers suddenly cancelled the scheduled meeting to be held for tomorrow, observers said that the position of the rebel outfit is becoming murkier and murkier and suddenly they have turned out to be more unpredictable.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=10119
LTTE suddenly cancelled tomorrow's meeting with Sri Lanka armed forces. </span>
Colombo, 25 June: The meeting schedule to be held for tomorrow, Saturday morning 9 am at Akkaraipattun in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka between, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the delegation of Sri Lanka's Special Task Force and the Police is cancelled suddenly.
Reason for the cancellation is not known.
It was reported that LTTE yesterday agreed to resume its regular meetings with Government forces in Batticaloa and Ampara - according to Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) spokesperson Disa Finnboga.
But today Disa Finnaboga said to "Asian Tribune" that the SLMM received a communication from the political office of the LTTE at Ampara "canceling" the proposed meeting agreed earlier to be held for tomorrow.
The SLMM spokesperson said that LTTE has not given any reason for the cancellation of the schedule meeting.
The positive move for the meeting with the Sri Lankan armed forces came only a day after the LTTE said it was putting off meetings with the security forces in protest against alleged government harboring of dissident leader Colonel Karuna Amman.
It is understood that now LTTE is caught up in two minds and they have yet to make a final decision on the future of Peace Talks in the country.
However it is said that the ceasefire is still holding in the country.
Meanwhile Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim is expected to arrive in Colombo on Monday as part of efforts to salvage the island's peace process amid fears of renewed fighting between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels,
Erik Solheim is expected to be in Sri Lanka on a for a four-day visit during which he will meet President Chandrika Kumaratunga and the head of Tigers' political division S.Paramu Thamilselvan.
The sudden cancellation of the talks by the LTTE points to the rebel outfit hardening it position and it is not clear as to how far Erik Soheim might be able to convince the outfit for the resumption of talks with the Government of Sri Lanka.
As the Tamil Tigers suddenly cancelled the scheduled meeting to be held for tomorrow, observers said that the position of the rebel outfit is becoming murkier and murkier and suddenly they have turned out to be more unpredictable.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=10119
Truth 'll prevail