LTTE to discuss resuming peace talks with Norwegian envoys
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Dec 14, IRNA
Lanka-LTTE-Norway
Tamil Tiger leaders will meet with a high- level Norwegian delegation and discuss the possibility of resuming peace talks with the Sri Lankan government.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) spokesman Daya Master also informed by telephone from Kilinochchi that the details for resuming the peace process would be worked out when the Norwegian delegation meets with its leadership.
Master declined to say who would be coming from Norway, which brokered the 2002 ceasefire between the government and rebels, or when they would arrive.
Yasushi Akashi, a Japanese peace envoy who visited Sri Lanka last week, said that there was a possibility of a "high-level political delegation" from Norway visiting Sri Lanka soon to meet with the government and rebels, the local media reported.
The Norwegian embassy in the capital Colombo declined to comment on the status of the delegation or when it will arrive, stating that they did not have a date yet.
Earlier, India's Defence Ministry blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels for a grenade attack at a police meeting in the country's northwest, which wounded 18 officers.
But Master denied the LTTE was involved in any of the attacks, and instead blamed a guerilla faction that broke away in March 2004.
He said that the renegades want to create a bad name for the LTTE and, therefore, the rebels were carrying out the attacks.
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