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The UNP without trying to maliciously distort and misinterpret statements made by JVP leaders should reveal the secret Elephant-Tiger pact it has entered into with the Tamil four Party Alliance, said the JVP in a press release issued yesterday.

The release signed by JVP politburo member and former MP Anura Dissanayake said: "The UNP is engaged in a childish attempt to derive self-satisfaction by misinterpreting a statement purported to have been made by JVP propaganda secretary Wimal Weerawansa during the 'Rathu Ira' program on October 30. This is self evident in the press release issued by UNP media spokesman Karunasena Kodituwakku yesterday.

The release said the UNP claimed that during the Rathu Ira program Mr. Weerawansa admitted the non existence of a Secret Elephant-Tiger (Ali-Koti) agreement saying it was only one of his own political assessments.

By doing this, the UNP is only trying to gain sympathy amidst the mass opposition gaining ground against its secret agreement with the LTTE.

The JVP release said what Mr. Weerawansa meant during the above TV program was the creation of an Elephant-Tiger unholy alliance. Point by point he explained the formation of the Tamil Party Alliance at the behest of the LTTE and the relationship of this alliance with the UNP. The viewer who joined in through telephone asked whether Mr. Weerawansa had seen the Elephant-Tiger pact. Mr. Weerawansa replied that he had not seen it but there is a necessity to divulge it to the nation. He also said the pacts the PA signed with the CWC and the SLMC as well as the pacts the UNP signed with the SLMC and the PA dissidents have not been revealed to the nation. No one other than the parties to these agreements had seen these agreements. But just because no one else has seen them none could dismiss such agreements as non existent.

The JVP release added that what the UNP has signed with the Tamil Party Alliance is a secret agreement. Revelation of secret agreements take time. What the LTTE wants today is to set up a UNP Government.

Either UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe or the UNPs new found champion S. B. Dissanayake should announce to the nation whether they are going to lift the LTTE ban, withdraw security forces from Jaffna, open a dialogue with the LTTE without conditions through Norway's facilitation and agree to a solution LTTE demands for a separate state if they are elected to power.

What the LTTE wanted today was to set up a UNP Government so that it could get its proscription lifted and get the international community to remove its 'terrorist' label. Its other political priority is to get the Security Forces withdrawn from the North, restart negotiations through Norway's facilitation and pave the way for a separate Tamil state.

The UNP leader had not made any direct statement denying his party's connections with LTTE's motives and objectives. By trying to misinterpret statements made by JVP leaders, the UNP is only attempting to hide the secret Elephant-Tiger pact from the people.

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