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SLMM to draft in more monitors by Ananth Palakidnar The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) chief Major General Trygve Tellefsen is scheduled to meet the LTTE hierarchy in Kilinochchi On Wednesday over the recent incidents in the seas off Trincomalee and Mullaitivu, informed sources said. SLMM which has prepared draft proposals with suggestions on strengthening the ceasefire monitoring activities has also planned to increase the total number of 47 monitors with additional nine members in order to increase the surveillance in the North-East waters, sources said. Major Gen. Tellefsen at his meting with the LTTE leadership in Kilinochchi this week is expected to discuss the incidents at the North-East waters which had led to the criticism on the monitoring activities of the SLMM by several political parties, sources said. According to sources the SLMM has requested for additional personnel from Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. Meanwhile the legal officer of the SLMM Pekka Viheruas dismissed allegations against the Mission on the recent incidents in the North-East waters and said the SLMM was doing its best to maintain the ceasefire impartially. "We cannot simply accuse anyone without proper evidences. The inquiries are made and on non contradictory basis only we make our conclusions", he said. He also said that the meeting on April 24 between LTTE, Government and the SLMM would be an important one and all new measures to upgrade the ceasefire monitoring activities would be discussed in detail. |
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