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The LSSP cannot acquiesce to any arrangement resulting in the handover of the North and East to an armed LTTE, says a press release issued by the LSSP yesterday.

"An interim administration should in fact be the process which allows the LTTE controlled districts of Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi to pass over to civilian administration which accords with democratic norms of administration and respect for fundamental and human rights of the people", the press release says.

The release:

LSSP on the projected Interim Administration for the North and the East

"The media conference held by the LTTE leader in Kilinochchi and the publicised response to it by the Prime Minister together project a new stage in the peace process. It is indicative of a carefully orchestrated move to allow the administration of the North and East by the LTTE. Although it is presented as an interim measure there is every likelihood of the UNP Government and the LTTE working on the major assumption that this is in fact the final solution. From what the LTTE leader stated at the media conference the indication is that there is already agreement between the UNP and the LTTE on the nature and meaning of the purported interim administration.

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party takes pride in the fact that it has always stood for a political solution to the ethnic problem. It cannot however acquiesce in any arrangement or strategy which would result in the handing over of the administration of the Northern and Eastern Provinces to an armed LTTE. An interim administration should in fact be the process which also allows the LTTE controlled districts of Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi to pass over to civilian administration which accords with democratic norms of administration and respects the fundamental and human rights of the people. The people living in these districts and in the Eastern province should be free of the threat to their rights by an LTTE that remains an armed political movement.

The LSSP sees nothing sacrosanct in the proscription of the LTTE. But it urges that the question of the de-proscription be considered only in relation to the proof the LTTE could furnish to the people of its genuine disengagement from its terrorist politics."

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