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Efforts for removal of Kinniya camp - PM Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe responding to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday assured that the Government is working with the Norwegian facilitators to get the LTTE to remove the camp in Manirasakulam in Kinniya. The procedure relating to the removal of the controversial camp is 'completely in line with the Ceasefire Agreement' between the Government and the LTTE, the Premier stressed in his letter to President Kumaratunga. The President wrote to the Prime Minister in this regard on August 21. The Prime Minister warns that "acting on the basis of political expediency" was not the correct approach to the problem at this crucial time. "The facilitator, the Royal Norwegian Government, has been brought into the picture and its Special Envoy Eric Solheim, has been in continuous dialogue with the LTTE leadership on this matter," the Prime Minister stated in his letter to the President. "It has always been my position that the people of this country have mandated the government with this responsibility of proceeding to pursue peace, while maintaining the fullest security, and I am determined to fulfil this confidence, which the people have placed in us." "Please be assured that this government will ensure peace with full security," the Premier said. Referring to the Eastern situation, the Premier states that action has been taken to strengthen security in the East through several initiatives. "The Police and Armed Forces are alive to the situation and in readiness to ensure law and order concerns are appropriately taken care of," the Prime Minister said in his letter. The controversial camp has became a crucial factor with the LTTE refusing to dismantle the camp in accordance with the ruling given by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM). However, the LTTE has showed some sort of flexibility towards solving the problem with the SLMM Chief taking the latest initiative after restarting talks on the controversial camp with the LTTE Trincomalee area leadership. The LTTE last week allowed the SLMM teams to visit the camp after refusing access to the camp for a long time. The LTTE is due to respond to Gen. Tellefsen this week as the LTTE Trincomalee area leadership promised him that they would respond the SLMM after considering the proposals forwarded by them to settle the dispute. The SLMM Chief is due to visit Trincomalee this week after receiving the LTTE's letter on this regard, its spokesperson Agnes Bragadottir said. |
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