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Manmohan, Rajapaksa discuss Tamil situation, bilateral ties
Thursday September 20, 2012 10:02:37 PM,
IANS
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Delhi/Bhopal: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday
met Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and pressed him for an
early solution to the decades-long ethnic issue and stressed on
the need to fast-track rehabilitation of displaced Tamils.
Rajapaksa called on President Pranab Mukherjee and later met
Manmohan Singh to discuss various issues that impinge on bilateral
relations.
"Both the meetings consisted of discussions in a restricted
format, followed by meetings along with delegations. Each of the
two meetings lasted more than 40 minutes each," said official
sources.
"The meetings provided an opportunity to comprehensively review
all matters of mutual interest. This was the first detailed
discussion of all substantive issues since June 2010," said the
sources.
During the talks, the Sri Lankan side updated the Indian side on
its efforts for the rehabilitation of war-displaced Tamils in the
island nation.
Rajapaksa is understood to have assured India that his government
was doing all it can to speed up a lasting solution to the ethnic
issue, said informed sources.
Rajapaksa began a three-day visit to India Wednesday night. He has
been invited by the Madhya Pradesh government for the foundation
stone-laying ceremony of the University of Buddhist and Indic
Studies in Sanchi.
His visit comes amid anger in sections in Tamil Nadu about the
alleged persecution of Sri Lankan Tamils during the last phase of
the war with the LTTE that ended in May 2009.
In Madhya Pradesh, around half-a-dozen supporters of MDMK
protesting the visit of Rajapaksa were detained at Salamatpur near
Sanchi, police said Thursday.
MDMK general secretary Vaiko, who arrived in Nagpur with over
1,000 supporters on way to Sanchi, Wednesday attacked the central
government and the Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
government for inviting Rajapaksa.
In March, India voted for a US-backed resolution on Sri Lanka at
the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. India said it was aimed at
speeding up the reconciliation process in the island nation.
India has voiced disappointment over the slow pace of
reconciliation in Sri Lanka and the lack of progress in
implementing the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and
Reconciliation Commission, a panel Colombo set up to probe charges
of human rights violations.
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