Prime Minister responds to Norwegian Foreign Minister
SCOPP Web Release 31 May 2003
On Wednesday May 28, the Norwegian
Embassy delivered to the LTTE a copy of Prime Minister
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s letter of May 27 to the Norwegian
Foreign Minister Jan Petersen. The Prime Minister was
responding to the letter Minister Petersen sent to him,
with a copy of Mr Anton Balasingham’s letter of
May 21 addressed to Norwegian State Secretary Vidar Helgesen.
In his letter, Minister Petersen has requested the Prime
Minister to respond to the proposal made by the LTTE leader
V Pirapaharan, to establish “a new innovative structure
for the reconstruction and development of the north and
east”.