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| Sunday, 14 November 2004 |
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President studies LTTE's new strategy by S. Selvakumar President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga discussed the new LTTE strategy to restart peace talks with head of the Peace Secretariat Jayantha Dhanapala. Other top aides of the President, too, participated in this meeting, well informed sources said. The new strategy mapped out by the LTTE was handed over to the President on Thursday evening by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen after he returned from a meeting with LTTE hierarchy including Tiger supreme Velupillai Prabhakaran. The Norwegian delegation also discussed the new strategy with the President. The Norwegian Foreign Minister left Thursday evening to Dubai enroute to Cairo to attend the funeral of Palestine leader Yasser Arafat. The Norwegian delegation sans its Foreign Minister met with Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe discussed the talks they had with LTTE and called for his co-operation to recommence the peace talks. Wickremesinghe told the delegation that he had already extended his party's fullest support to recommence the talks and explained to them his party's reasons for not participating in the National Advisory Council on Peace and Reconciliation set up by the President. Meanwhile, government's thinking on the LTTE strategy would be conveyed to the Tigers through Norway in a few days time, sources said. Though the LTTE told the government of its new strategy to recommence talks it stuck to its original proposals on the Interim Self Governing Authority. |
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