Bloomberg,  Wed Mar 29 20:17:14 EST 2006

    March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said they will take part in peace talks in Geneva next month that were threatened by an escalation of violence in the South Asian island nation.

``The agenda for the second round of talks will definitely be about disarming Tamil paramilitaries if the government fails to take action against them,'' Anton Balasingham, the Tamil Tigers chief negotiator at the peace talks, said yesterday in London, according to TamilNet.

Sri Lanka's Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, leading the government delegation, said yesterday the administration is committed to a negotiated settlement ``despite recent provocative action,'' Agence France-Presse reported from the capital, Colombo.
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In fact they forget to bring some more night vision binaculars and some other stuff last time when they were there...
So expect them to go at least after those goods and possibly to finalise some unfinished weapons dealing...

Sorry guys....but this is da truth...

Good news for people like Bogollagama in GOSL deligation - another trip at tax payers expense with shopping for wife and political training for son etc...

I guess this is one way to neutralize the ill effects of the Dvora incident.

It means that the International Community can still call the shots.

The Academic wrote:

Bloomberg``The agenda for the second round of talks will definitely be about disarming Tamil paramilitaries if the government fails to take action against them,'' Anton Balasingham, the Tamil Tigers chief negotiator at the peace talks, said yesterday in London, according to TamilNet.

GoSL can easily win trivial arguments such as who violated CFA most. I think however it needs to take the initiative and force the negotiations to next level up. We know LTTE harps on about disarming paramilitaries to buy time. GoSL should publicly offer federalism as a political solution with the endorsement of the IC so that the ball falls in their court. If not they will stage a walk out and resume hostilities. They can do this becos VP already given a warning. I am not sure when its such an obvious way to trap LTTE into a negotiated settlement why GoSL is not doing it.