LONDON, Jan 4 (APP): Asserting that there can be no military solution to the ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka, the British Government on Friday urged all the stakeholders to work together for peace.
Commenting on the decision of the Sri Lanka Government to end the Ceasefire agreement, British Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown, regretted the the lack of a genuine commitment to peace from the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan Government.
‘I pay tribute to the tireless efforts of Norwegian facilitators and the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, often in very difficult circumstances, to further the cause of peace in Sri Lanka,’ he said.
He called on the authorities to live up to its commitment to address the grievances of Tamil people and said it is essential that the final recommendations of the All Party Representative Committee are issued soon and that a bold and courageous decisions are urgently taken to set out a framework for a just political solution.
“We look to the political parties in Sri Lanka to place the need to work together for peace above their narrow self-interests,” he said.