Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers must compromise for peace: envoy
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Sri Lanka said Friday it could not return to the negotiating table with the Tamil Tigers unless there was a guarantee from the rebels that they would not walk away from the talks.
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Rebels in Sri Lanka warn they may return to war if the government fails to resume peace talks on their terms.
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The Sri Lankan government and the   Tamil Tiger guerrillas have told Norwegian peace 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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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have ignored Colombo's warnings not to test its patience, with both sides now engaged in a dangerous game of brinkmanship, officials and diplomats said.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urges the Tamil Tiger rebels to restart peace talks.
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Hopes for peace rose in Sri Lanka as the elusive Tamil Tigers chief planned to meet Norwegian peace brokers next week amid tension between the government and the rebels over tsunami aid.
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Sri Lanka has asked peace broker Norway to suspend contacts with the island's Tamil Tiger rebels pending a review of relations with the guerrillas, a top Sri Lankan official said.
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By David Brunnstrom and Simon GardnerBRUSSELS/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 ...
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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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Sri Lanka&#39;s government has rejected demands from Tamil Tiger rebels to unconditionally resume peace talks. The rebels threatened at the weekend to return to military action unless discussions based on their blueprint for self-rule began again.
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COLOMBO - The top Tamil Tiger leader has warned he will launch a âfreedom struggleâ unless peace talks resume soon, in what an analyst said was a veiled threat to revive Sri Lankaâs civil war.
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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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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared they will renew armed struggle unless the Colombo government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a rebel blueprint for self-rule.
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Tamil Tiger rebels said Thursday they were ready to revive a dying ceasefire abandoned by Sri Lanka's government and urged Norway to maintain its role as peace broker.
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Colombo, Oct 02: Sri Lanka on Monday opened talks with a top Norwegian envoy on saving the troubled peace process with Tamil Tigers even as suspected rebels shot dead a police officer in the island's restive ...Comment
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Sri Lanka&#39;s president offered to open peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday even as security forces were locked in combat with the guerrillas.
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Sri Lanka may outlaw the Tamil Tigers if the rebels continue to mount large-scale attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Monday, a move that would put the prospect of renewed peace talks further out of reach.