Asked to comment on frequent visits by Indian dignitaries to Colombo and the status of the proposed PSCNQ, Cabinet spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said yesterday that all avenues would be kept open for as long as it took.
When it was pointed out that the TNA, which was a major player in the equation, had conveyed its disappointment at the dilatory tactics adopted by the government to India’s National Security Adviser, Shivshankar Menon, during his Sri Lankan visit last week, the Minister said that the TNA had the habit of saying one thing in the morning and quite another in the evening.
"Nevertheless, we see light at the end of the tunnel and are confident that the TNA will return to the negotiating table very soon," Rambukwella said while reiterating that any solution to the ethnic issue had to be endorsed by all stakeholders.
Menon said at the conclusion of his Colombo visit that New Delhi did not intend applying pressure of any sort, but would be glad to assist in getting the reconciliation process back on track.
India was committed to a united Sri Lanka, where all communities would feel they were in control of their own destiny, Menon noted. | 
The government is confident that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in spite of its claim last week in a statement to India that it did not see any point in getting involved in ‘what looks like an infructuous negotiating process’, will eventually participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee on the National Question (PSCNQ).
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
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The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [