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Norway will help finalise venue for talks: Fernando
The Hindu (International),
21 February 2002.
Sri Lanka today sought to allay apprehensions about
its fledgling peace process running into problems over the venue for
proposed talks with the LTTE, saying Norwegian peace facilitators
would sort out such problems.
The LTTE is insistent that peace talks with the Government should be
held in a South Indian city to enable its chief negotiator, Anton
Balasingham avail of medical facilities during negotiations, but the
Government feels that this is not a conditionality, but only a suggestion.
``We are leaving this to the Norwegians. We are quite content to let
them handle this,'' the Foreign Minister, Tyronne Fernando, told a press
conference here this evening.
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Published: Wed Feb 20 17:27:44 EST 2002
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