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India is working with Sri Lanka on a political solution to ethnic conflict
Sun, Jan 31, 2010, 07:52 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 31, Colombo: Indian government is working with the government of Sri Lanka on a solution to the ethnic conflict that is satisfactory for all the communities in the country, an Indian official said.
India's National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon told media after meeting with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in Chennai today that India is also assisting the Sri Lankan government on the resettlement and the rehabilitation of displaced Tamils.
Menon said he assured the Chief Minister that the central government continues to do whatever it can to find a solution acceptable to all the communities.
"We are working with the Sri Lankan government both in terms of resettlement of displaced people and also in terms of devolution of power in the political arrangement that will satisfy all the communities in Sri Lanka," the National Security Adviser said.
"Indian Government is continuously holding talks with Sri Lanka on these; we insist the Sri Lankan government to resettle the Tamils in the same place where they lived before the war and they should get adequate devolvement of powers," Menon added.
He said the Chief Minister Karunanidhi expressed concern over the Indian fishermen detained in Sri Lanka and their condition.