Norway FM takes peace message to Tamil Tigers
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Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga offered to revive stalled peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in a message conveyed to rebels by Norway's Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, her office said.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s bid to forge lasting peace with Tamil Tiger rebels after two decades of civil war is at its most critical ebb since a 2002 truce, Norway&#39;s peace envoy to the country said on Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels today made a fresh offer to President Chandrika Kumaratunga through peace broker Norway to end the 19-month deadlock on negotiations.
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Sri Lanka's government officially notified peace-broker Norway on Thursday that it is pulling out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels that has failed to quell the violence.
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COLOMBO: Tamil Tiger rebels have rejected Sri Lanka&#39;s latest peace initiative as a &quot;time wasting tactic&quot; as Norway warned the insurgents to stop killing political opponents.
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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their six-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapkse offered fresh peace talks and asked Tiger rebels to lay down weapons as he visited this former guerrilla-held town.
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A Sri Lankan official has denied the government has agreed to unconditional talks with Tamil Tiger rebels, and accused peace broker Norway of failing to consult with Colombo before making any announcement.
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Sri Lanka's main foreign donors meet in Oslo this week to seek ways to halt renewed civil war, and a key focus will be human rights abuses blamed on the state and its Tamil Tiger foes, diplomats say.
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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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Norway's peace envoy began a fresh bid on Monday to arrange crunch talks between the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lanka's government to halt renewed violence, as sporadic shelling continued in the island's besieged north.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Tamil Tiger rebels held  their first talks with Norwegian peace envoys since the tsunami  on Saturday saying the disaster opened up new possibilities for  a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#39;s peace broker Norway on Wednesday failed in its latest bid to break the deadlock in negotiations between the island nation&#39;s government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Colombo, Dec 15 (UNI) The Tamil Tigers today said the responsibility to resume the stalled peace process was entirely in the hands of the Freedom Alliance government led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
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"This comes on top of the increasingly frequent and brutal acts of violence perpetrated by both parties, and I am deeply concerned that the violence and hostilities will now escalate even further"  Sri Lanka Thursday formally told peace facilitator Norway and the Nordic truce monitors that it would withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Jan 16. via Nerve News
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The Sri Lankan government said on   Wednesday it was committed to holding peace talks with Tamil   Tiger rebels, provided the rebels agreed to "a comprehensive   and verifiable cessation of hostilities."
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Norway's foreign minister is due in Sri Lanka in a fresh attempt to revive the stalled peace process.