S Lanka lets UN visit rebel area
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Sri Lankan authorities decide a visit by the UN food agency chief to rebel-held territory can go ahead after all.
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US-based Human Rights Watch says the UN should send observers to monitor the fighting in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urges the Tamil Tiger rebels to restart peace talks.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will use a visit to Ireland this week to promote plans for emergency military intervention by EU battlegroups on behalf of the United Nations in crisis situations, the Irish Times reported on Monday.
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THE United Nations yesterday said it was boosting its peacekeeping presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo after Rwanda threatened to attack rebels based there.
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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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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader told AFP.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, a day after Italy and Turkey moved to join the international force there.
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COLOMBO - Sri Lankaâs president Chandrika Kumaratunga offered to revive stalled peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in a message conveyed to rebels by Norwayâs foreign minister Jan Petersen, her office said on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's President  Mahinda Rajapakse tells the BBC  the door is still open for peace talks with the Tamil Tigers.
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A Sri Lankan rebel leader said Wednesday his group would use all means necessary &amp;#151; including suicide bombers &amp;#151; if full-scale war erupts on the island nation.
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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 army has closed off entry points to areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels for the first day since a 2002 ceasefire after Red Cross officials said they feared for their safety amid sporadic violence.
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Sri Lanka has agreed to include observers from other countries after Tamil Tiger rebels expelled European Union member states from a ceasefire monitoring mission, an official said.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday he will visit tsunami-devastated Indonesia to work with regional leaders to help coordinate aid and relief efforts on the ground.
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Sri Lanka agrees to talks with Tamil Tiger rebels after months of violence and fears of a return to all-out war.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said here he wished to return to Sri Lanka to "see all parts of the country" amid reports he had been blocked by the government from visiting rebel-held zones in the north.