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Sri Lanka moves to head off crisis with Tamil Tigers.
(From Agence France Presse)
Sri Lanka will hold a fresh round of talks with a top Tamil Tiger rebel to head off a deepening crisis over the scaling-down of military camps, a senior defence official said.
Defence Secretary Austin Fernando said he was optimistic that the issue of so-called "high-security zones" and the contraction of military bases in the embattled Jaffna peninsula could be resolved shortly.
Fernando said the army's top general in Jaffna, Sarath Fonseka, had been invited by Scandinavian truce monitors to a meeting with a Tiger leader in Jaffna to discuss the issue on January 14.
The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who entered into a Norwegian-arranged truce with the government in February, issued a strongly-worded statement last week slamming both the army and the monitors over the matter.
The LTTE has insisted that the military should vacate private property and decrease their high-security zones to allow displaced civilians to return to their homes.
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