Major General Trond Furuhovde, former Head of Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), will visit Sri Lanka next month as special representative of the Royal Norwegian, the Norway's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday.

The Royal Norwegian Government is deeply concerned by the continuing violence in Sri Lanka over the past months, which undermines the Cease-fire Agreement between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to the statement.

As facilitator, the Royal Norwegian government has sought for the past three weeks to convene a meeting between the two parties, at their requests, to discuss the implementation of the Cease-fire Agreement.

The statement said, "We regret to conclude that the parties have not yet reached an agreement on the venue for such a meeting at this juncture."

Furuhovde will consult both parties on the security situation and the implementation of the Cease-fire Agreement.

Norway will also host an extraordinary meeting of the Sri Lanka co-chaired jointly USA, EU, Japan and Norway in New York on Sept. 19. The aim of this meeting is to address the need to strengthen respect for the Cease-fire Agreement in the increasingly difficult security situation.

Source: Xinhua