To review truce after FM's assassination:
Govt seeks urgent talks with LTTE
PRESIDENT Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
yesterday wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik,
seeking immediate talks with the LTTE to review the Ceasefire Agreement
(CFA) in the wake of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar's
assassination.
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Emergency Regulations approved
THE Emergency Regulations were approved at a
special session of Parliament yesterday for a further period of one
month by a majority of 103 votes. Government, UNP, JHU, JVP and SLMC
rebel group Members voted for the extension of the Emergency (124 votes)
while the TNA, UPF and the UNP's Mano Ganeshan voted against (21 votes).
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