Sri Lankan PM to Brief World Leaders on Peace Process

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Sri Lankan PM to Brief World Leaders on Peace Process

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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will brief a number of world leaders before the commencement of Norwegian-brokered peace talks with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels expected in Thailand next month, the official Daily News said on Wednesday.

Within the next three weeks he is due to visit Britain to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Minister Jack Straw, the European Union to meet its President Romano Prody and other EU leaders and India to meet Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

The talks will seek to reach a negotiated settlement to Sri Lanka's 19-year ethnic conflict between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels who have been fighting since 1983 for a separate Tamil homeland in the north and east of the country.

Earlier all talks attempted at reaching a political settlement have failed with the rebels reneging the talks and taking up arms again.

Both the government and Tamil rebels are observing an indefinite truce in terms of an agreement signed by the two sides in February.

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