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Helgessen, Solheim here on Wednesday by Ananth Palakidnar Norway is expected to renew its efforts to resume the stalled Government-LTTE peace talks with the arrival of its facilitators in Colombo this week. Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgessen and special envoy Erik Solheim who are expected in Colombo on Wednesday to look into crucial issues such as the LTTE's counter proposals to the North-East interim administration and on the challenges met by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission on the Wan-Ela camp in Trincomalee. Diplomatic sources said that Messrs Helgessen and Solheim will have a series of important discussions with government leaders. This week marks the completion of one year since the much acclaimed peace talks between the Government and the LTTE got under way in Sathahip, Thailand. Following the talks in Colombo the two Norwegian facilitators will travel to Wanni to look into the progress made by the organisation in finalising their counter proposals on the North-East Interim Administration. According to sources from Wanni,the Norwegian facilitators will have discussions with LTTE's political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan on the counter proposal issue and they are unlikely to meet LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran as he had so far not met a single VIP without the presence of his theoretician Dr. Anton Balasingham. During the meeting with S.P. Thamilselvan the Norwegian facilitators are expected to give importance to the Wan-Ela camp issue. The ruling given by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission to remove the camp is likely to take centre stage as this issue has been brought to the notice of the Norwegian facilitators by the SLMM. Earlier the SLMM spokesperson Agnes Bragadottir told that they were expecting a fair deal from the Norwegian facilitators with regard to the Wan-Ela issue. |
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