Tuesday, June 10, 2008

LTTE sending favourable signals for Indian mediation: Minister

Sri Lanka's separatist group LTTE has sent "favourable signals" for India's role as a 'mediator' to end the vexed ethnic conflict in the island nation, Sri a Sri Lankan Tamil Minister said here on Monday.

Addressing the media here, P Chandrasekaran Lankan Minister for Community Development and Social Inequity Eradication, said the LTTE had also evinced interest in Indian intervention and "favourable signals" had emanated from the outfit in this regard.

Chandrasekaran, also leader of Upcountry People's Front, an organisation representing plantations' Tamil workers of Indian origin, said he fervently hoped the Sri Lankan government too would welcome Indian intervention.

He also said LTTE was ready for political solution and the people of Sri Lanka were longing for an end to the war which was too hard a burden on the tiny nation.

Read more,
http://www.thehindu.com/holnus/001200806091860.htm

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