Norway envoy meets with Tamil Tigers
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Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheimmet Wednesday with Tamil Tigers leaders at the rebel-held northerntown of Kilinochchi in a fresh attempt to revive Sri Lanka&#39;s peacetalks, the national television reported.
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Sri Lanka's peacebroker Norway and the country's main financial backer Japan are due to step up diplomatic efforts to salvage a faltering peace process, officials and diplomats said.
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Sri Lanka expressed concern over truce violations by Tiger rebels as a top Norwegian envoy prepared to return home empty-handed after failing to end the island's talks deadlock, officials 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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Norway's capital could not have been further removed from the chaos and bloodshed of the Middle East. Yet it was as a result of top-secret meetings here that two veteran warriors decided it was time to talk peace.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#39;s government said yesterday it was ready with new proposals to resume peace talks with Tamil Tiger guerillas and hammer out a political solution to the island&#39;s bloody ethnic conflict.
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Sri Lanka signalled Friday it wanted to end Norway's position as the island's main peace broker as international concern mounted over Colombo's decision to end a truce with Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
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Norway's foreign minister is due to meet  Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran  to revive the peace process in Sri Lanka.
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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, 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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COLOMBO, Jan 21 (IPS) - While the Norway-brokered ceasefire between the Sri  Lankan government and Tamil separatist militants finally failed,  last week, it did provide a six-year window of prosperity to this  island nation torn by a festering ethnic conflict.
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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 peace broker Norway is to launch a fresh attempt to end a seven-month deadlock in talks after the warring parties agreed to meet, diplomats said.
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Colombo, Nov 5 (UNI) London-based chief negotiator and political advisor of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Anton Balasingham is likely to visit Wanni early next week to assist elusive rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran during his meeting with Norwegian Foreign
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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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Norway's effort to end Sri Lanka's civil war is not dead, despite increased violence and a lack of progress in bringing the government and Tamil Tiger rebels to the negotiating table, the nation's foreign minister said Thursday.
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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.