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Sri Lanka peace process on hold: Norway

Sri Lanka's peace process will be no hold until the country's political crisis is over, said Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen on Friday.

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Sri Lanka's peace process will be no hold until the country's political crisis is over, said Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen on Friday.

"We need to make clear that the ceasefire will be much more difficult to sustain in a political vacuum," Helgesen told reporters at the end of a visit.

"There is no space for Norway" to mediator and "we have to go home and wait," the deputy minister said, indicating the politicalfight between Sri Lanka's president and prime minister would makeit difficult to sustain a truce signed in February 2002.

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