
LTTE Suspends Negotiations with Sri Lanka Pending Implementation of Agreements Reached
Expressing deep displeasure over certain critical issues relating to the ongoing peace process, the LTTE leadership Monday informed the Sri Lankan government that it has decided to suspend its participation in the negotiations for the time being.
In a letter addressed to Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mr. Anton Balasingham, the LTTE's Chief Negotiator and Political Advisor, while expressing the LTTE leadership's regret at having been compelled to make this painful decision, reiterated the LTTE's commitment to seek a negotiated political solution to the ethnic question and called upon the Sri Lankan government to restore confidence in the peace process by implementing, without further delay, the normalisation aspects of the cease-fire agreement.
Mr. Balasingham further said that the LTTE leadership has decided not to participate in the international donor conference to be held in Japan in June. Full Text of the letter to Sri Lnakan Prime Minister
21 April 2003
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