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Date : 2004-08-04
<span style='font-size:25pt;line-height:100%'>President still willing to Talk LTTE's ISGA proposal - no change in Government's position - Maithripala Srisena </span>

Colombo, 04 August: Maithripala Srisena, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and a Government Minister in a statement issued to the press said that the news item that appeared in several print and electronic media about the Executive Committee meeting of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is totally incorrect and the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has not changed its stance regarding the talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Maithripala Sirisena the General Secretary of the SLFP the main constituent party of the UPFA denied news stories planted by the news agencies attributing him of has made a statement that the Executive Committee of the UPFA which met on 02 August had totally rejected the LTTE's ISGA proposal.

This misleading news item, according to Maithripala Srisena's statement, was carried in several news dailies, State television and radio.

Minister Sirisena in his statement denied that there was absolutely no truth in this story that has been attributed to him.

Maithripala Sirisena added that President Chandrika Kumaratunga at the Executive Committee meeting of the ruling Alliance on 2nd August 2004, has stated that there was no change in her Government's stance.

The President maintains that the GOSL is willing to discuss with the LTTE, its proposal for an interim administration alongside the talks to reach a final solution acceptable to all communities.

- Asian Tribune -
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=10671

<span style='font-size:25pt;line-height:100%'>Government says \"NO\" to ISGA, peace process in shambles? </span>

Alladin Hussein in Colombo, August 3, 2004, 12.16 p.m.. In what appeared to be a "definite setback" to the country's fragile peace process, the United Peoples Freedom Alliance Government today declared that they will not take up the LTTE's Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA) proposal for discussion when peace talks resume.
This is despite the LTTE insisting that they will not come to the negotiating table unless the Government agrees to base talks on the ISGA. The general secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Maitripala Sirisena quoted the President as saying at the Alliance executive council meeting today that the peace talks would not be resumed based on LTTE's "ISGA" proposals. The Government's main ally, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna which is very much against the ISGA, may have pressurised President Kumaratunga into making such a drastic decision, sources told the Lanka Academic.

President would have been in fear that if she ignored the JVP, then she wouldn't have had a Government, because at several instances the JVP warned that if the ISGA is taken up for discussion, then they will pull out of the Government, the source added.

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