Jehan Perera
Jehan Perera
apart assurance both certain coalition committed fire government norway publicly restrained sides wants
Norway wants both sides to be committed to the cease-fire. Apart from that, I think Norway wants the government to give an assurance that certain of its coalition allies, which have been publicly denouncing the Norwegians, will be restrained from doing so.
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Cooperation between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels is at a standstill or even dead at the moment,
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If a compromise can be reached for a mutually agreeable venue for talks, that will be decisive in the level of violence.
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The negative side of this (election) is that nothing is going to happen until the elections are over.
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If there are no talks, with continued violence, we will see the government lose control of the north. I think the violence is a high-level LTTE decision to push the government toward war or talks where they will try to obtain concessions and seek international recognition and legitimacy.
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The president needs to go much further than he has been prepared to go. There needs to be much greater commitment at the highest level for this to work out. It would seem we are returning to war.