Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Stop the killings, Oslo tells LTTE

Norway's Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen at a meeting with an LTTE delegation in Geneva has condemned the political killings taking place in Sri Lanka.

He also asked the LTTE delegation headed by political wing leader S. P. Thamilselvan to do everything possible to stop such killings, the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo said yesterday.

Mr. Helgesen told the LTTE delegation that Oslo was concerned over the continuing breaches of the ceasefire agreement. Mr. Helgesen emphasized the negative implications of the ceasefire violations for the peace process as a whole and underlined that such violations also make the work of the SLMM difficult, the embassy said.