Dhanapala tells international community:

Stronger action needed to tame Tigers

THE top Sri Lankan official involved in peace talks expressed frustration on Thursday at the LTTE rejection of the Colombo airport as the site for negotiations. Peace Secretariat Chief Jayantha Dhanapala said the LTTE was dodging resumption of the talks until after Presidential Elections, due by November 22.

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Norway to send special representative
 

MAJOR GENERAL (Rtd) Trond Furuhovde, former Head of Mission of Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission will visit Sri Lanka next month as a special representative of the Royal Norwegian Government, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday.

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