The Government of Sri Lanka has for sometime been informing the Norwegian facilitator of the urgent need to have a meeting with the LTTE, in order to discuss several problems that have arisen in the implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement. There has been a great increase in the number of political killings in the Northern and Eastern provinces and in the Colombo district. The Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated on 12th August. The other political killings have continued to occur even thereafter.
President Kumaratunga further informed Mr. Jan Petersen, the Foreign Minister of Norway at a meeting on the 15th of August, of the need for urgently holding a meeting with the LTTE to consider practical ways of improving the implementation of the Ceasefire.
In order to find an acceptable venue to the two parties, the Norwegian facilitator has in a statement issued today [7th September] proposed to hold such talks at an agreed venue in Colombo. The Government of Sri Lanka has informed the Royal Norwegian Government that it is agreeable to holding talks at the proposed venue.
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Violations Committed
by the GOSL - 351
