Colombo:
Sri Lankan Government has rejected fresh calls for a truce with LTTE rebels, saying it was committed to eliminating terrorism from the country and ending the 25-year-old protracted conflict.
",It is a policy decision which we have taken to completely root out terrorism", from the country, Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters.
Describing the Tamil National Alliance's (TNA) demand for a ceasefire as ",laughable",, Rambukwella said adding, ",there will be no ceasefire with the LTTE",.
The ceasefire appeal had come from the TNA, a proxy for the LTTE, which has 21 legislators in the 225-member Parliament. Sri Lanka's key international financial backers, including the US, European Union and Japan, had also appealed for a ",no fire period", to allow civilians to get out of harm's way.
He said the government is on the verge of finishing the LTTE and ending the 25-year-old protracted conflict with the area under the Tiger rebels diminishing rapidly.
He claimed that the LTTE rebels were confined to less than 100 square kilometer in the Island's northeast.
",We have been told by the LTTE that they are willing to accept a ceasefire if the government ends the offensive against them and will hold talks on the Tamil issue,", a senior member of the TNA, Nallathamby Srikantha, told reporters.
",It is a policy decision which we have taken to completely root out terrorism", from the country, Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters.
Describing the Tamil National Alliance's (TNA) demand for a ceasefire as ",laughable",, Rambukwella said adding, ",there will be no ceasefire with the LTTE",.
The ceasefire appeal had come from the TNA, a proxy for the LTTE, which has 21 legislators in the 225-member Parliament. Sri Lanka's key international financial backers, including the US, European Union and Japan, had also appealed for a ",no fire period", to allow civilians to get out of harm's way.
He said the government is on the verge of finishing the LTTE and ending the 25-year-old protracted conflict with the area under the Tiger rebels diminishing rapidly.
He claimed that the LTTE rebels were confined to less than 100 square kilometer in the Island's northeast.
",We have been told by the LTTE that they are willing to accept a ceasefire if the government ends the offensive against them and will hold talks on the Tamil issue,", a senior member of the TNA, Nallathamby Srikantha, told reporters.
