Under the auspices of the Ceasefire Agreement, the Government and the LTTE met for the fifth round of Peace Talks on 07-08 February 2003 at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, Germany.
The Government negotiating team consisted of the following people:
Hon. G.L. Peiris
Hon. Milinda Moragoda
Hon. Rauff Hakeem
Amb. Bernard Goonetilleke
SCOPP issued a press release on the morning of the first day, which can be found here.
The LTTE was represented by:
Mr. Anton Balasingham
Mr. S.P. Thamilselvan
Mr. Muralitharan (Karuna)
Mrs. Adele Balasingham
Norwegian facilitators, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vidar Helgesen, Ambassador Jon Westbourg and Mr. Erik Solheim, also participated.
The closing statement by the Norwegian facilitators is here.

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