LTTE vetoes recasting ceasefire
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, July 28, IRNA
Sri Lanka-LTTE
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) has rejected Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's proposal to renegotiate the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) signed on February 23, 2002, reports 'The Hindustan Times'.
The LTTE's rejection has come through a special interview given to the Tamil daily `Sudar Oli' on Tuesday, by Anton Balasingham, the LTTE's London-based chief negotiator and ideologue.
Balasingham said the only solution to the present problems lay in implementing the existing CFA.
He charged that the Sri Lankan government had not implemented four key clauses of the CFA: removal of the armed forces from Tamil areas; disarming the Tamil paramilitaries working in collaboration with the Sri Lankan army; ensuring the security of the LTTE's unarmed political cadres working in government-controlled areas of the Northeast; provisions of adequate military security for LTTE cadres moving between the LTTE-controlled and government-controlled areas.
"If these four clauses are implemented, the CFA will hold.
Therefore the entire responsibility for holding the CFA and preventing war lies with the government," Balasingham said.
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