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| Sunday, 20 October 2002 |
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Azwer offers 'Lankan solution' to Mid East crisis by UN Spl. Corr. T.F. Deen Parliamentary Affairs Minister Al Haj. A. H. M. Azwer offered what he called "a Sri Lankan solution" to the Middle East crisis, while addressing a meeting of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the United Nations. Since a new government was installed in power last year, he said, Sri Lanka has launched a series of confidence-building measures - one step at a time. "We have a ceasefire agreement. We have laid down arms. We have a cessation of hostilities, and stopped shooting - and started talking", he told the gathering of non-governmental organisations. The meeting, officially billed "the International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People", was sponsored by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. Azwer said Sri Lanka was also fortunate in having the good offices of Norway as a facilitator in the ongoing peace negotiations. Asked by an NGO representative whether Sri Lanka would be willing to play the role of a facilitator between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Azwer said he will carry that message to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. "I will take this to my government", he added. He also told the meeting that all the "pious resolutions" adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council means nothing - unless and until they are implemented. |
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