Ceasefire would only help terrorists - Foreign Secretary

A ceasefire would only help the terrorists to recover and drag this war for another twenty five years, said Foreign Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohona at the inauguration of the Sri Lankan Diaspora Dialogue in Colombo last Saturday (March 28 ).

“President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Government have on many occasions called on the LTTE leadership to let these people go and have been consistently ignored demonstrating again and again the utter and callous disregard paid by LTTE to the very people they claim to represent,” he added.

The Government is rightly calling on the Tamils living overseas to return to the warm embrace of mother Lanka and seek a common future with all her other children as the wish of the Government is to build a partnership with the Diaspora, he emphasized.