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LTTE Political Delegation meets with Austrian Government Officials

Mr.Tamilselvan, responding to the Ministry concern about ‘donor fatigue’ in the absence of a Joint Mechanism and progress in the peace process, said that the LTTE’s commitment to maintain the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) with integrity and exercising flexibility in the matter of formulating proposals for a Joint Mechanism, remains undiluted. “Similar to the donor fatigue, we have to face a public confidence fatigue in the context of a non-productive peace process and a reluctant power centre in Colombo that hasn’t yet provided the political space to make use of the window of opportunity provided by Mother Nature in adversity to weave into the ‘splintered’ political fabric the tiny thread of hope that would take us forward in building confidence and make progress in the peace process” lamented Mr.Tamilselvan.

Mr.Klaus Steiner of the Department for Policy and Evaluation, Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs reiterated the necessity for both the parties to the CFA to be still more flexible and assured that Austria would be supportive of Norway’s facilitatory role and endorsed the view that equitable distribution of aid that is flowing into Colombo should be the theme on which all actors in the process should work.

Also participating in the discussion was Mag. Peter Storer , Head of Division for South and Southeast Asia, Political Department and Ms.Margit, Head of Unit Knowledge and Quality Management, Austian Development Agency.

24 March 2005

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