08-30-2003, 05:53 PM
Future talks may be very tough: Ranil
Colombo, Aug. 30. (UNI): Predicting that there could be more deadlocks and temporary breakdowns in the stalled peace process, Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that future talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels would be 'very tough.
"We have a very tough task before us, the future talks are going to be very tough. There may be more deadlocks or temporary break-downs," the State-run Daily News quoted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as saying yesterday.
Referring to the peace talks, Wickremesinghe said that the parties involved would try to make the sixth round of talks 'successful'.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe's comment on the future talks comes at a time when a top-LTTE delegation led by S P Thamilselvan was holding consultations with its legal and constitutional experts in Paris with regard to its proposals to the government's fresh offer of an interim administrative set up in the North-East region.
Commenting on the forthcoming LTTE's proposals on the North-East, Wickremesinghe said that the country was witnessing a new chapter with "the LTTE for the first time in history asking the assistance of Tamil experts living in the country, instead of depending on London-based guidance for the future talks."
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/01301130.htm
Colombo, Aug. 30. (UNI): Predicting that there could be more deadlocks and temporary breakdowns in the stalled peace process, Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that future talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels would be 'very tough.
"We have a very tough task before us, the future talks are going to be very tough. There may be more deadlocks or temporary break-downs," the State-run Daily News quoted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as saying yesterday.
Referring to the peace talks, Wickremesinghe said that the parties involved would try to make the sixth round of talks 'successful'.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe's comment on the future talks comes at a time when a top-LTTE delegation led by S P Thamilselvan was holding consultations with its legal and constitutional experts in Paris with regard to its proposals to the government's fresh offer of an interim administrative set up in the North-East region.
Commenting on the forthcoming LTTE's proposals on the North-East, Wickremesinghe said that the country was witnessing a new chapter with "the LTTE for the first time in history asking the assistance of Tamil experts living in the country, instead of depending on London-based guidance for the future talks."
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/01301130.htm
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