Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Norway says killings beyond its control

The Norwegian government yesterday condemned all factional killings in Sri Lanka and said such acts were a danger to the peace process and the Ceasefire Agreement.

Referring to news reports that the Norwegian government had given an assurance to the EPDP that it would take steps to prevent further killings, a Norwegian Embassy spokesman said yesterday that the facilitators could not give such an assurance on matters that did not come under their control.

He said the political killings were essentially internal matters and Norway could give no assurances regarding such matters.