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Most countries want peace in Lanka - Solheim by Jaffna special correspondent India, Japan, the European Union and America want peace restored in Sri Lanka as early as possible, Norwegian special peace envoy Eric Solheim said in Jaffna. "But the breach of the memorandum of understanding by the LTTE and the Security forces have stalled the resumption of peace talks. If the violation of ceasefire agreement continues unabated, the resumption of peace talks will be a question mark," he said addressing members of Jaffna NGOs and others at the Jaffna NGOs Consortium. Sri Sakthivel, President NGOs consortium presided. Solheim said the breach of the memorandum of understanding had accelerated during the middle part of this year. "We have appealed to both the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Government to create the climate for the resumption of peace talks," he said. NGO representatives unanimously appealed to the envoy not to lose hope in his endeavour to bring a lasting peace to the country. They said it was in the hearts of all Tamils that Norway alone could solve the ethnic problem. They said they have pinned their hopes for an early dawn of peace through peaceful negotiations of Norway. Solheim and the Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar met members of Public Organisation at the Faculty of Agriculture Jaffna University, They said it was also a paramount responsibility of the people of Jaffna to put pressure on the LTTE and the government to resume peace talks. They said Norway was always ready to support them in their endeavour to bring peace. They regretted that mutual accusation by the LTTE and the Security forces was not going to solve the ethnic problem. Instead they would create more deadlocks and procrastinate attempts to bring both warring parties to the negotiating table. They emphasised that assassinations of political rivals should come to a halt. This is one of the contributory causes for the delay in bringing both the LTTE and the government to the negotiating table. They said their visit to Jaffna was to meet representatives of various NGOs and to urge them to give a helping hand to resolve the ethnic deadlock. |
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