Sri Lankan Group Urges President, PM to Cooperate for Peace

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Sri Lankan Group Urges President, PM to Cooperate for Peace

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Sri Lanka's Organization of Professional Associations (OPA) has urged both President ChandrikaKumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to cooperate to make the Norwegian-brokered peace process in the country a success, The Sunday Island said.

"The OPA requests the president and the prime minister to uniteto tackle the Tamil demands without one party resorting to subterfuge the other party," OPA President V.N.C. Gunasekera was quoted as saying in a statement issued on Saturday.

He said that they were perturbed by the continuing and escalating violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel which they signed with the government in February last year, particularly in the setting up acamp in a government controlled area in the eastern port district of Trincomalee.

Despite the ruling by the international truce monitors that thecamp was built in a government controlled area and should be removed by the LTTE, the rebels have so far remained defiant against the ruling.

The OPA also urged the government to explore the possibility ofdeploying international peace-keeping forces in the country to consolidate the ceasefire between the government and the LTTE rebels.

The LTTE rebels have also been accused of killing their political opponents since the signing of the ceasefire agreement last year.

President Kumaratunga is critic of the government of her arch political rival Prime Minister Wickremesinghe in handling the Norwegian-brokered peace process.

She has complained that the government has given too much concession to the LTTE rebels.

The president was in an uneasy cohabitation with the governmentafter her People's Alliance lost the December 2001 parliamentary elections to prime minister's United National Party. ��

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