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Norway points finger at EU for Sri Lanka talks breakdown

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OSLO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers want European Union members withdrawn from a five-nation truce monitoring mission, mediator Norway said on Thursday.

The EU last month listed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a banned terrorist organisation after an upsurge in violence on the Indian Ocean island.

"The LTTE has informed us that individual members of the EU cannot be members of the Nordic monitoring mission," Erik Solheim, Norway's minister for international development who brokered a 2002 truce, told a news conference.

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/325/tige...ors-norway.html

LTTE continues dialogue with Norwegian Minister, SLMM Head

Explaining that there were principled issues, related to the formal engagement of monitors from Nordic EU Member States after the EU's recent proscription of the LTTE, being discussed, Mr. Thamilchelvan said that the dialogue with the Norwegians and the SLMM would continue on Friday.

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Asked about the EU's stated preparedness to continue dialogue with the LTTE despite the ban, Mr. Thamilchelvan said the LTTE was always supportive of dialogue, but the formal process of ceasefire monitoring required a scrupulous commitment to neutrality in Sri Lanka's conflict, which was compromised by the EU ban.

"There are Nordic countries which are not Member States of the EU and their participation is encouraged by the LTTE," Mr. Thamilchelvan said.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=18442

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International Community's Diplomatic Duplicity Badly Back Fires

Unsolicted formation of Donor Co-chairs and their excessive interference started the slow death of the peace process back in 2003.

The unwarrented proscription of LTTE (a party to the CFA) and the continued biased stance of the International Community against backdrop of a genocidal Sri Lankan Government (the other party to the CFA) drove the last nails to the peace process's coffin. The near indifference of SLMM to the gross CFA violations of the Sri Lankan State forced the tamils to defend themselves with limited responses which culminated to the colapse of the CFA.

International Community has lost the credibility and the respect of the grieving tamil nation. The onus is on them to play the due role in a honorable way when the opportunity strikes next time.

கடைசிய நீல நிறத்தில இருக்கிற பந்தி எங்க இருந்து எடுத்தது?

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Norway points finger at EU for Sri Lanka talks breakdown

09/06/2006

Norway on Friday blamed the European Union for contributing to a breakdown in talks between Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers which has thrown the question of further Norwegian mediation wide open.

The rebels on Thursday aborted a two-day meeting in Oslo with Colombo representatives arranged by Norway to discuss the safety of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) overseeing a fragile truce.

They said they objected to the presence of EU members in the SLMM following a decision by the EU last month to place the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on its list of terrorist organisations.

"There is no doubt that this is an underlying issue hardening the position of the LTTE prior to the Oslo meeting," Norway's minister for international development, Erik Solheim, told AFP

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http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/060609093558.s29c5bdy

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