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No recognition to Karuna - SLMM by Ranga Jayasuriya Ceasefire monitors yesterday insisted on their right to meet the renegade Karuna faction, but said such meetings did not confer recognition of the LTTE's breakaway group, nor do they justify the activities of the group. "I say in clear terms that we reserve the right to meet anyone, whose activities have an impact on the practical implementation of the CFA," Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Chief Hagrup Haukland told the Sunday Observer. "Such meetings are crucial for the implementation of the CFA. But it does not mean that we recognize them or activities of these individuals," he said. Haukland said ceasefire monitors had met some members of the Karuna cadres a few weeks back in Welikanda "to know what they are doing there". He also said LTTE political leader S.P.Thamilselvan on Thursday informed him that the LTTE had closed all political offices in the government controlled areas in the North-East, including the Jaffna peninsula and withdrawn all the political cadres. Meanwhile donor co-chairs - Norway, United States, Japan and European Union will meet in New York on September 19 in an extraordinary meeting summoned by Oslo, which a spokesperson said was "disturbed by the strains on the ceasefire". "The agenda is not yet finalised, but the meeting will, surely, focus on strengthening the Ceasefire Agreement," a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Embassy said. Former head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Gen. Trond Furuhovde is expected to visit the island for consultations with the two parties to the CFA on the implementation of the truce agreement, Norwegian Embassy announced on Friday after it failed to bring the government and the LTTE to an agreement over the venue for the ceasefire talks. "We regret to conclude that the parties have not reached agreement on the venue for a such a meeting at this juncture," the embassy said in a statement, announcing the visit by Gen. Furuhovde. |
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