Sri Lanka government, rebels say willing to talk
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BRUSSELS/COLOMBO  - The Sri Lankan government and   Tamil Tiger rebels have told Norwegian mediators they are   willing to return to peace talks without conditions, Japan's   peace envoy to the country said on Tuesday.
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VAKARAI, Sri Lanka  - Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume peace talks.
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A top Norwegian peace envoy met with Sri Lanka&#39;s Prime Minister on Thursday, a day after failing to break a deadlock in peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lanka has agreed to hold crunch peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on October 28-30, the government said on Wednesday, amid efforts to halt a new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war.
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Sri Lanka has offered fresh talks with Tamil Tigers to avert a return to all-out civil war as the top guerrilla leader wrote off the Norwegian-backed peace process.
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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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COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government on Sunday asked the Tamil Tigers to work for a negotiated political settlement to the ethnic conflict, a day after LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran threatened to go back to war.
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One of the biggest Darfur rebel  factions said on Thursday it would respect a ceasefire and was  ready to resume peace talks with the government to try to halt  violence in the region that has killed some 200,000 people.
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Sri Lanka's peace broker Norway stepped up moves to arrange a face-to-face meet between the warring parties after Colombo accepted a rebel pledge to resume talks, diplomats said.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said they will spurn any new government proposals to revive peace talks not giving them self-rule as peacebroker Norway was set to try to jumpstart the negotiations.
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The Liberation Tigers met Sri Lankan armed forces representatives Friday at the truce monitoring mission office in Batticaloa for discussions on the security of their political activists who are working in the eastern town.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Dec 30  - Tamil Tiger rebels Thursday left the door open for cooperation with their warring partner, the Sri Lankan government, on tsunami relief operations.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s feared Tamil Tiger rebels has threatened to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that has killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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Sri Lanka's government has proposed holding new peace talks with Tamil Tigers in the next few weeks and is awaiting a response from the rebels, a top government official told AFP.
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Indonesian ministers and exiled rebel leaders seeking the independence of the tsunami-devastated Aceh province agreed with Finnish mediators on Thursday to hold face-to-face talks about ending nearly 30 years of fighting.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka could slip back to a protracted war within months unless the government agrees to revive peace talks based on a controversial rebel blueprint for self-rule, analysts said on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka's cabinet meets to discuss reactivating anti-terror laws amid worsening ties with Tamil rebels.