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| Sunday, 21 December 2003 |
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LTTE-SLMC MoU cancelled ? by ANANTH PALAKIDNAR Political wing leader of the LTTE S. P. Thamilselvan told a group of journalists on Friday that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader and Minister Rauff Hakeem, in April 2002 does not exist anymore. He told the journalists who were mainly from the Eastern Province, that the SLMC leader had on several occasions said that the MoU did not exist. "We also understood the instability of Hakeem within his own party. Even after the signing of the MoU between Prabhakaran and Hakeem, several incidents had taken place to damage the co-existence between the Tamils and the Muslims in the Eastern Province. Therefore, we now consider that the MoU does not exist anymore", Thamilselvan said. Thamilselvam however reiterated that his organisation would continue to maintain cordial relations between the Tamils and Muslims. Media Consultant of the SLMC leader Dr. A. R. A. Hafeez said that the decision to nullify the MoUt was unilateral as the SLMC leader had never said that the MoU had come to an end. "The SLMC leader only pointed out that the MoU had been violated by the LTTE and nothing else", he said. |
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