The Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) will meet in Geneva on February 22 and 23 for truce talks, peace facilitator Norway announced last night.
"The parties to the conflict in Sri Lanka, the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, have asked Norway to facilitate talks in Geneva, Switzerland, from February 22 to 23," the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
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Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) President V. Anandasangaree has strongly condemned the claim of an LTTE leader that the claymore mine attack on the military was by the civilians and not by them.
Anandasangaree in a statement on behalf of the TULF stated that the Sri Lankan Tamils were not barbarians.
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| JVP has taken steps to protest against the support given by GoSL to European Union sponsored resolution by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report on Iran against its nuclear programme. General Secretary of the JVP Mr. Tilvin Silva is to send a letter of protest to President Mahinda Rajapakse explaining the JVP’s stand on this issue and protesting against the stand taken by GoSL said a JVP spokesman.
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| The Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition Nimal Siripala de Silva opened the first of 35 maternal and child health facilities, supported by UNICEF as part of tsunami rebuilding efforts, yesterday, states a UNICEF press release.
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A statement issued by Tamil Eela Makkai Viduthalai Pulikal (Karuna faction of the tiger organization) says it “will launch a search and hunt operation against the Vanni paramilitaries not only in the east but also in the whole island.”
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| JVP General Secretary Mr. Tilvin Silva, in a letter, has requested UPFA General Secretary Minister Susil Premajayanthe not toget his party to contest under the UPFA as his party intends contesting the forthcoming local government elections under the ‘bell’ symbol. However, even when this letter was received yesterday afternoon Mr. Susil Premajayanthe had taken measures to appoint representatives of UPFA on district basis say reports.
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| It is reported that Colombo Magistrate Ms. Kusala Sarojani Weerawardene has complained to the Judicial Services Commission that a senior UNP Parliamentarian for Galle District had tried to pressurize her to favour in a bribery case against Negombo Mayor Henry Newton Fernando.
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The Government has decided to set up two companies to oversee oil drilling activities on Sri Lanka's coastal belt.
Transport and Petroleum Resources Development Minister A.H.M. Fowzie told the Daily News that the two companies which will be fully owned by the State will be responsible for overseeing the oil exploitation activities.
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