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TNA MPs meets foreign diplomats

The TNA delegation was lead by its leader Mr Sampanthan and included Mr Joseph Pararajasingam, Mr Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, Mr Selvam Adaikalanathan, Mr Suresh Premachandran and Ms Pathmini Sithamparanathan. The delegation highlighted the following points to the Ambassadors.

• The political situation in the country is worsening. Three years and four months have passed since the ceasefire agreement was signed. But many aspects of the agreement have not been implemented.
• From 90 to 180 days after signing the agreement home guards and all other armed groups must be disarmed. But this has not happened.
• Peace talks are stalled.
• The proposal put forward by the LTTE for an interim self-governing authority has not been taken up at all.
• Even the joint mechanism for tsunami relief work was signed after six months of dragging. Now one month after it was signed there is no further progress on it. Using the high court ruling as an excise it is being blocked.
• All efforts by the LTTE to find solutions to these problems through political means have not been successful.
• Basic reason for all of this is the absence of accommodation within the Sinhala leadership or its political system. It is dominated by Sinhala chauvinistic ideals.
• Things have reached such a tight stage because the Sinhala leadership does not like to do justice to the Tamils.
• It is in this background that Tamils have again arrived at a situation where they have to find their own solution in their own manner.
• International community must understand that it is the Sinhala leadership that has forced the Tamils into a situation where they have to seek their own solution.
• With the understanding of the just position of the Tamils, international community must give the needed support to the actions of the Tamils.

22 July 2005

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