Regardless of who wins the Presidential polls, the prospects for a revival of the Norwegian initiative look slim.
Anxiety about terrorism is now shaping Britain’s political debate and redefining allegiances.
It is unfair and unacceptable to choose one party to the peace talks and penalise it.
The strategy being advocated by President Chandrika Kumaratunga today is a derivative of her ‘war for peace.’
‘But the open-ended language of the resolution means that it will be of greater help to abusive regimes than to the fight against terrorism’
Nevertheless, the primary objective of both Rajapakse and the various groups around him is to ensure his victory.
The actual risk to the ceasefire is not violence per se, but the continuing non implementation of crucial aspects of the Agreement resulting in declining benefits from it.
Four years after 9/11, Americans have managed to show themselves, their friends and most of all their enemies the limits of American power.
Are we strangling the peace process and thereby strangling the economy as well?
Self-interest is the name of the game and both Rajapakse’s and the JVP’s are served by the arrangement that has been made.