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	Peace in Sri Lanka
		The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held the sixth session of peace talks at Hakone, Japan from 18 to 21 March 2003.
		The Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE are deeply concerned about the latest incidents at sea, including on 10 March.
		The parties agreed to hold the seventh session of talks from 29 April to 2 May in Thailand, the eighth session from 12 to 15 June in Japan and the ninth session from 15 to 18 July in Europe (venue to be determined).
	www.peaceinsrilanka.com /peace2005/Insidepage/PressRelease/RNG/RNG21March03.asp (1008 words)

	Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission - SLMM, was established on February 22, 2002 by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
		The SLMM mandate is to monitor the cease fire between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government.
		University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), Sri Lanka, accuses Norway's 'appeasing the LTTE' strategy as being responsible for the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar [8] The Norwegian deputy foreign ministers comment on the calls for more pressure on the LTTE was that the cease fire agreement and the peace process is the parties responsibility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sri_Lanka_Monitoring_Mission (1027 words)

	LankaWeb News
		The deputy head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), Hagrup Haukland in a tough dispatch to the Tiger leadership, said that he was utterly disappointed when he heard S.Pulidevan of the LTTE Peace Secretariat announced that the LTTE could not release the Sinhalese soldier and the police constable according to their whims and fancies.
		The SLMM reminded the LTTE that the seven Tiger rebels involved with a tense standoff with Sri Lanka naval troops were released specifically with the condition that the two in the LTTE custody would be released.
		When asked by a reporter why did the Sri Lanka government release the seven armed rebels in a hurry when the LTTE was dragging its feet Fernando replied that was the difference between a government and a rebel group.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items03/280203-1.html (532 words)

	Embassy of Sri Lanka - Washington DC, USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission strongly condemns the suicide bomb attack that took place at the Sri Lankan Army Head Quarters in Colombo earlier today resulting in death and injury of both army personnel and civilians.
		The Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission still has limited information about the attack and will for the time being refrain from drawing any immediate conclusions about the possible perpetrators.
		It is likely to have very negative effects on the relationship between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers or Tamil Eelam and could jeopardize any possibility for future talks.
	www.slembassyusa.org /archives/main_index_pages/2006/pr_slmm_25apr06.html (265 words)

	Open letter to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) and Sri Lankan Police ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On 23 February 2002 the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE signed a cease-fire agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) which offered fresh hope that there would be an improvement in the human rights situation in the country.
		Six district level monitoring committees were established, each consisting of five members; two appointed by the Government of Sri Lanka; two appointed by the LTTE and one international monitor.
		In the Agreement signed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, both parties recognized the need to end hostilities and to improve "the living conditions of all inhabitants affected by the conflict." It was also stated that provisions within the Agreement "regarding the security of civilians" applied to "all inhabitants" of Sri Lanka.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGASA370042003 (2173 words)

	Welcome to EPDP web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Batticaloa District Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Heikki Hulkkoene, has written to the EPDP stating that LTTE’s leadership in Kokkattichcholai has assured the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission that Tamil political parties are free to carry on their political activities without interference from the LTTE.
		The LTTE is openly advocating a one party polity for the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka contrary to the provisions of fundamental rights granted to its citizens by the constitution of Sri Lanka.
		SLMM spokesman Teitur Torkelsson said the LTTE had stated that maintaining its military strength was vital for it to be successful at negotiations with the government.
	www.epdpnews.com /news-Englishl-Archi5.html (6515 words)

	Sri Lanka: Significant Political News Items in 2002
		Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) changes sea monitoring process: annouced it was curtailing its sea monitoring activities by refraining from joining the Sri lanka Navy in inspecting intercepted vessels except under special circumstances.
		The SLMM has recirded evidence of bruises on the two naval monitors who were detained by the LTTE on a fishing trawler they had boarded to inspect.
		Sri Lanka may enter into an agreement to allow US military aircraft and ships to refuel and be serviced in its territory, a US embassy official said today.
	www.ices.lk /sl_database/political_events/political2002.shtml (3223 words)

	Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka
		The Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Batticalao, Lars Tidbeck,has asked the LTTE to stop harassing the public."The SLMM is much concerned about the harassment of the members of the public in Batticaloa district by the LTTE," Tidbeck said in a press release today.
		SLMM is under fire from human rights activists and the media for not doing enough to stop abductions, child conscription and harassment in the east.
		Sri Lanka is euphoric about the ceasefire between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), but to this eastern town, it has brought no peace of mind.
	www.uthr.org /Statements/press.htm (3155 words)

	Sri Lanka's situation worsens
		Sri Lankan military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said the fighting broke out after the LTTE members were trying to attack Naval and police targets at Pesalai in Mannar, about 230 km north of Colombo, at about 6:55 a.m.
		Sri Lanka's cease-fire broker Norway has warned that the spiral of worsening violence in the country is bringing the Indian Ocean island towards full civil war and requested an immediate halt of all violence.
		Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, while strongly condemning the LTTE for "brutally killing unarmed innocent people," stressed that the government is still committed to negotiated settlement to the country's ethnic issue.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /world/2006-06/18/content_619524.htm (657 words)

	Finns, Danes to quit S.Lanka monitors - Boston.com
		Finland and Denmark will quit the unarmed Nordic mission monitoring Sri Lanka's battered 2002 truce after a row with Tamil Tiger rebels over an EU terror ban, they said on Friday, as mortars and air strikes hit the island.
		Finland will quit the unarmed five-nation Nordic mission monitoring Sri Lanka's battered 2002 truce after a row with Tamil rebels over an EU terror ban, it said on Friday, as mortar battles, air strikes and a blast hit the island.
		The exit of Finland and Denmark will cut the mission's size by a third at a time when it is monitoring the bloodiest period since the ceasefire, with more than 800 dead so far this year.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/07/28/finns_danes_to_quit_slanka_monitors (751 words)

	LINES
		The feeling of a distance to the SLMM is serious, given the fact that thousands of civilians have remained in need for the protection that a monitoring agency could have given them – due to continued violations in the North and East of the 2002 ceasefire agreement.
		Monitors were unambiguous about the trouble they faced whenever they tried to approach the LTTE to discuss its ceasefire breaches: The organisation would fail to respond to letters, postpone meetings, and, if accepting to meet, often send junior representatives.
		In the current set-up, the monitoring mission is not only partly funded by the facilitator: it also sees itself as subservient to the ‘peace process’; a quite elusive entity that the facilitator stands in a key position to define.
	www.lines-magazine.org /Art_Aug04/ingrid.htm (3249 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ceasefire monitoring activities hitherto restricted to the land area are to be extended to cover the sea area as well by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM).
		The SLMM has decided to widen monitoring activities following the recent naval incident in the sea off Vakarai where several LTTE vessels are alleged to have been involved in arms smuggling.
		Furuhovede who returned to Sri Lanka on May 23 is reported to have met Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vigar Helgesan who arrived in Sri Lanka accompanied by Norwegian facilitator Erik Solheim to finalise the commencement of peace talks between the Government and the LTTE.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/05/27/new01.html (223 words)

	SiberNews - Nordic countries condemn attack on Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
		Batticaloa office of the SLMM is located on Lake Road, 50 meters from the paramilitary Razeek Group camp, which is attached to a Sri Lanka Army camp.
		SLMM has always enjoyed the full confidence of the affected populations, and good cooperation on behalf of the parties to the Ceasefire Agreement.
		The contributing countries expect the parties to the Ceasefire Agreement to ensure the security of SLMM, in accordance with the Agreement, and to ensure that SLMM is given the opportunity to fulfil the responsibilities placed on the mission by the parties to the Ceasefire Agreement.
	www.sibernews.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3462&Itemid=32 (707 words)

	Lanka-LTTE trust at rockbottom, say Nordic monitors - Irna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nordic truce monitors, overseeing the shaky truce between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for the past four years, said mutual trust between the two parties is at rockbottom and that confidence-building measures were needed to take the Norwegian-brokered peace process forward.
		The Sri Lankan government and LTTE are set to hold direct talks in Geneva on February 22 and 23 on the effective implementation of the ceasefire agreement that is under serious threat.
		Answering a question with regard to the much-spoken mandate of the SLMM, Haukland said that the Nordic mission would not look for an expanded mandate to monitor the truce pact at the upcoming Geneva talks, "but we are prepared to give our view on the implementation of part of it," he added.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-234/0602161454084342.htm (498 words)

	Statement by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Trond Furuhovde, Head, Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Following a Briefing with Prime ...
		Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) chief Major General (Retd.) Trond Furuhovde met with and briefed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, in Colombo, consequent to his visit to violence-torn parts in the East.
		I have seen that the top leaders of both parties and their commanders on the ground are determined to promote the peaceful situation in Sri Lanka so that the peace talks can succeed.
		SLMM is now supporting the Government forces and the LTTE in increasing close cooperation and direct communications between their commanders in the North and East.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/shrilanka/document/papers/slmm.htm (870 words)

	Peace in Sri Lanka
		The premises of the SLMM, its property and assets wherever located and by whomsoever held shall enjoy within Sri Lanka, the same inviolability, jurisdictional immunities and fiscal exemptions as are accorded to the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Sri Lanka and for this purpose shall be deemed to be part of the said Embassy
		The premises of the SLMM shall be inviolable.
		Privileges and immunities are accorded to the SLMM and its members in the interests of efficient and independent fulfillment of the Mission's tasks and not for the personal benefit of the individuals concerned.
	www.peaceinsrilanka.org /peace2005/Insidepage/Agreements/SOMA.asp (1126 words)

	Sri Lanka, 1 - 3 - 2007: Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission under verbal attack
		Jan 03, Colombo: Leveling a scathing attack on the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), government defence spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella said the monitors have come to Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, in fear of the LTTE's claymore and landmines.
		The government spokesperson said that hence, the monitors have left the North and East and linger in Colombo to allow the Tigers, who are “miserably short” of cadres, to abduct children for conscription.
		The Minister also remarked that the monitors had said they were unable to do any monitoring due to threats to their lives from claymores and landmines.
	www.colombopage.com /archive_07/January3133327SL.html (309 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Crisis talks after Sri Lanka raid
		The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) said at least one of its team was in the navy convoy.
		SLMM spokeswoman Helen Olafsdottir blamed the Tigers for provoking the navy.
		More than 60,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka since the Tigers launched their campaign for a separate state in the north and east of the country in 1983.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4763941.stm (602 words)

	SLMM - Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Profile at LankaNewspapers.com
		Based on the CFA The Royal Norwegian Government (NRG) and the Government of Sri Lanka concluded a Status of Mission Agreement (SOMA) where status, privileges and immunities of SLMM and its members are defined and determined.
		The general opinion from the international community seems to be that the SLMM is of vital importance for keeping the fragile cease fire.
		As a monitoring mission the SLMM is not involved in the Norwegian government's facilitation of the peace talks.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/profiles/SLMM.jsp (208 words)

	Go2Lanka: One step gateway to Sri Lanka. Latest News, update throughout the day
		The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission informed the rival political parties of the LTTE about the LTTE assurances since it was the SLMM Batticaloa branch which held the meeting on the subject earlier.
		The Batticaloa head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Heikki Hulkkoene has written to the EPDP stating that LTTE’s leadership in Kokkadicholai had assured them that rival political parties were free to carry on their political activities without interference from the LTTE.
		Presenting excuses for non-attendance of the meeting LTTE’s political section spokesman said that SLMM’s failure to send the notice of the meeting in time, their lack of knowledge as to who were participating in the meeting and the lack of knowledge about the agenda of the meeting prevented them from attending the meting.
	www.go2lanka.com /stories/270103b.html (538 words)

	Go2Lanka: One Step Gateway to Sri Lanka. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fearing greater repercussions, the Norway backed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission advised the Sri Lanka Army not to furl the Tiger flag when the LTTE threatened that hundreds of them would commit suicide if they were stopped from flying their separatist Eelam flag over the sovereign territory of Sri Lanka.
		When the Sri Lanka Army heard that the separatist group was planning to hoist the Tiger flag over sovereign Sri Lanka territory, considering it a provocative act and as an act contravening the Ceasefire agreement complained to the SLMM Vavuniya office to intervene.
		Then the Sri Lanka Army informed the SLMM monitors that in that case they would be compelled to bring down the flag and furl it.
	www.go2lanka.com /stories/180703a.html (474 words)

	[Forwarded Statement by the AHRC] SRI LANKA: International Monitoring Mission for Sri Lanka
		Sri Lanka is a humanitarian and human rights disaster-in-the-making.
		One possibility is to support an independent international monitoring mission for Sri Lanka, as suggested recently by the Special UN Rapporteur Philip Alston, but it is also important to work towards strengthening the national institutions which can guarantee a sustainable monitoring capacity.
		The experts would assess the state of local capacities and institutions with regards to protecting and monitoring human rights and humanitarian norms, and would make recommendations to address violations that have been committed and to establish sustainable mechanisms and structures that could prevent further violations by all parties involved.
	www.ahrchk.net /statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/775 (785 words)

	Respect all rulings of SLMM!
		The LTTE is particularly condemned for initiating hostilities from heavily populated areas and the Government of Sri Lanka for firing into such vulnerable areas and killing and wounding innocent civilians.
		The Co-Chairs were disturbed by the incident on November 8 when the Head of Mission of the SLMM came under fire.
		However, we urge the Parties to the conflict to commit to a structured and sustained process of further negotiations without preconditions once a proposal is available, as indicated by the Government and welcomed by the LTTE delegation in Geneva.
	www.lankatruth.com /full_story/2006/Nove/23/20061121_7.htm (923 words)

	Peace in Sri Lanka
		The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) strongly condemns the claymore mine attacks on the Sri Lankan army in Jaffna on 8 and 10 April 2006 and on the Sri Lankan navy in Trincomalee district today.
		The Government of Sri Lanka and The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) are preparing, not for war, but a Lasting Peace through gradual and steady implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement....
		SLMM Naval Monitors will from now on, as a general rule, stay onboard the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) vessels and not join the SLN inspection team when entering an intercepted vessel........
	www.peaceinsrilanka.org /peace2005/Insidepage/Pressrelease/SLMM/SLMMpress.asp (1565 words)

	Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission to regroup in Colombo temporarily - Regjeringen.no
		Norwegian and Icelandic monitors will remain in Sri Lanka, and their number will gradually be increased to 30 when the ground situation permits and demands such an increase.
		This will allow the SLMM to focus its full attention on ensuring that the scaled-down mission is safely and securely re-organised under new Norwegian and Icelandic leadership.
		Norwegian and Icelandic monitors will be redeployed to the district offices as soon as the personnel is ready and the situation in each district permits the resumption of secure field monitoring.
	www.regjeringen.no /nb/dep/ud/Pressesenter/pressemeldinger/2006/Sri-Lanka-Monitoring-Mission-to-regroup-in-Colombo-temporarily.html?id=419977 (239 words)

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