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Sri Lanka Peace Negotiators End Latest Round with Accord on Resettling Refugees

Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels have concluded a fourth round of peace talks, making major progress on issues including resettlement, foreign aid and human rights.


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Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels have concluded a fourth round of peace talks, making major progress on issues including resettlement, foreign aid and human rights.

At the end of the four-day talks, G.L. Peiris, the head of government negotiators, and Anton Balsingham, chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, issued a joint statement.

The two sides drafted a "roadmap" to accelerate resettlement of some 94,000 families in areas occupied by the Sri Lankan army, known as high-security zones.

They also agree to deal with human rights abuses, women's rights and locating those missing in action.

Moreover, the statement says a reconstruction fund comprising aid from international donors and overseen by the World Bank will be set up to rebuild war-shattered villages and towns.

The next round of talks will be held in Thailand in February.


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