Norway peace bid for Lanka ends without breakthrough
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Colombo: Norway&#39;s latest bid to salvage Sri Lanka&#39;s faltering peace process ended without a breakthrough Friday but the government and the rebels have pledged to continue to uphold a fragile truce.
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A Norwegian delegation, lead by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is presently in Sri Lanka, to try to find out if it is possible to re-start the peace process in the island nation.
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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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Norway's peace envoy to Sri Lanka agrees to a government request to put off talks with the Tamil Tigers.
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A Norwegian peace envoy has kicked off a fresh initiative to save Sri Lanka's faltering peace process as the rebels' chief negotiator returned from London to join crisis talks, officials said.
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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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Five Nordic nations held talks to try to salvage Sri Lanka&#039;s faltering ceasefire, as the slaying of a top army general underscored the threat of full-scale war.
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Sri Lanka's ceasefire hung by a thread as Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces traded artillery fire and Finland and Denmark announced their truce observers would leave the country.
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A high-level Norwegian delegation led by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen arrived in Sri Lanka this week as part of international efforts to save the countryâs tottering peace process.
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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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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and India have ended two days of talks, but without any significant breakthrough on the key issue of Kashmir.
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Talks between India and Pakistan to resolve a dispute over a dam in Kashmir have ended without agreement, officials said on Friday, in another blow to the hostile neighbours' delicate peace process.
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Negotiations aimed at restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland have ended without a deal being reached, Tony Blair has said.
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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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Talks between India and Pakistan to  resolve a dispute over a dam in Kashmir have ended without  agreement, officials said on Friday, in another blow to a  delicate peace process between the rivals.
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Sri Lanka's government on Friday rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped six-year ceasefire and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels.
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Water flowed down a disputed canal in Sri Lanka after peace broker Norway defused the island's bloodiest battle in four years and averted a return to civil war, residents and officials said.