Japanese peace envoy in Sri Lanka
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Japan's special envoy to Sri Lanka arrives in Colombo for talks on resuming the stalled peace process.
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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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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Tamil Tiger rebels held  their first talks with Norwegian peace envoys since the tsunami  Saturday saying the disaster opened up new possibilities for a  solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
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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.Comment
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Norway's top peace envoy Erik Solheim has arrived in Sri Lanka to launch the first post-tsunami attempt to salvage faltering peace efforts, diplomats said.
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Foreign tourists leave in a shuttle bound for Colombo leaving the provisional British High commission office set in the town of Galle, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec.29, 2004.
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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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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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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Secretary of State Colin  Powell toured Sri Lanka's tsunami-ravaged south on Friday,  surveying a crippled tourism hub and relief efforts just hours  ahead of a visit by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Norway's foreign minister is due in Sri Lanka in a fresh attempt to revive the stalled peace process.
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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 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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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urges the Tamil Tiger rebels to restart peace talks.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger  rebels said on Saturday they had put politics aside to clear up  after the Asian tsunami, but added that swifter, fairer  government aid distribution could boost peace prospects.
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Sri Lanka agreed on Wednesday to hold unconditional peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on October 28-30, amid fears the worst violence since a 2002 truce could spiral into full-blown civil war.
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Sri Lanka has agreed to hold crunch peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on October 28-30, the government said on Wednesday, amid efforts to halt a new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Humbled by the tsunami disaster, political leaders on both sides of the conflict in this devastated nation say they feel a renewed obligation to find a peaceful settlement to the long-running civil war between the government and the Tamil separatist group that controls most of the country's northeast.