Tamil statehood 'is only option'
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have "no option" but to push for an independent state, their leader says.
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World News &gt; Colombo, Oct 4 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga today invited Tamil Tigers to return to the negotiating table to discuss the setting up of a federal state even as the main opposition parties boycotted her latest peace initiative
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Every map in Sri Lanka is about one of two fantasies. The official one in the south shows an undivided nation, the picture-postcard tropical paradise of white-sand beaches and Buddhist shrines.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have not abandoned their right to secede despite agreeing to explore a federal solution, the rebels said amid fresh diplomatic moves to salvage a faltering peace bid.
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Thursday made a fresh offer to President Chandrika Kumaratunga through Norway to end a 19-month deadlock on peace talks.
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A cross-party initiative to forge consensus for devolution aimed at ending civil war will collapse unless Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his party compromise, a top official said on Monday.
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The talks between the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen and the LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in Kilinochchi on Thursday failed to break the stalemate on the question of resuming peace talks with the Sri Lankan government to end the ethnic
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The latest attempt by Norway to kick start the stalled peace process in Sri Lanka has ended without any sign of progress. Norwegian envoy, Erik Solheim, failed to make a breakthrough in meetings with the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.
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The Sri Lankan government rejects a Tamil Tiger demand for peace talks to resume unconditionally.
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Norway, which is the peace broker in Sri Lanka, has asked Tamil rebel group LTTE to stop killing its political rivals as such killings are jeopardising the peace process in the island nation.
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NEW YORK: Pakistan will strongly oppose Indiaâs bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Pakistanâs permanent representative to the UN Munir Akram told a group of Pakistani journalists on Saturday.
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Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh indicated that regional autonomy could be a solution to the Kashmir issue, a stance already rejected by the territory&#39;s hardline separatists.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels appeared to be willing to join the government in relief work for Tsunami victims as President Chandrika Kumaratunga said a war with them was &quot;remoter&quot; now.
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Only England constituency MPs could be allowed to vote on English matters under plans considered by the Tories.
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The separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared Saturday that they would renew fighting unless the government immediately agreed
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Sri Lanka's government launched a new  all-party forum on Monday to discuss how best to turn a  two-year truce with Tamil Tiger rebels into permanent peace --  but a clutch of opposition parties stayed away in a boycott.