JVP seeks Ranil's clarification over LTTE's claims

COLOMBO:JVP Parliamentary Group Leader and Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa in a letter to UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday requested him to elucidate the LTTE political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvam's recent claims that the LTTE is entitled to exercise rights over the air space, ground and the sea adjacent to their so-called homeland according to the Ceasefire Agreement.

Secondly, Weerawansa's letter sought Wickremesinghe's clarification about a statement purported to have been made by him in the USA addressing Sri Lankan expatriates that the Government is bound to disarm the paramilitary groups as agreed in Geneva and that the present crisis is a sequel to Government's failure to fulfil that pledge.

The letter said that these two questions are posed to him not with an intention of causing him any political embarrassment, but genuinely because of the issues are crucial to the country's interests as far as the Ceasefire Agreement is concerned.

That Agreement was signed by Wickremesinghe on February 22, 2002, and therefore the people at large are keen to understand his stance on these two important issues, the letter said.