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Sri Lanka: "It's not too late. They can and should and must reopen real peace negotiations," Jan Egeland

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Thursday, 30 August 2007
thumb_217"It's not too late. They can and should and must reopen real peace negotiations," Jan Egeland told AFP.But he added, "To the best of my knowledge there is very little movement." The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been fighting for an independent homeland in a 35-year ethnic conflict.A 2002 truce now exists only on paper as worsening fighting since late 2005 has killed more than 5,000 people, according to government figures.

" Now it's time to look to the future and agree on peaceful co-existence'.... That's the only way," said Egeland.

As Norway's deputy foreign minister in the early 1990s, he began work on peace efforts in Sri Lanka.Egeland said the international community must step up its pressure on the two warring sides and tell them to go back to negotiations
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