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“As far as we are concerned having a cease-fire is irrelevant to the peace process,” Kumaratunga said in response to the LTTE announcement that it had called off its unilateral cease-fire earlier this week. “We are still totally committed to commencing negotiations with the LTTE and working out a solution to the problems which have led to the war. We do not believe it can be solved only through military means,” the President said in an exclusive interview to the PRIU. On Monday, the LTTE announced that it would end its self-declared cease-fire saying the government had failed to reciprocate. According to the Defence Ministry however, the rebel group had violated the cease-fire over 220 times in the past four months since it was declared on Christmas Eve last year. President Kumaratunga also called on the LTTE to be sincere in its efforts for a negotiated settlement to the country’s ethnic conflict. “Once again I reiterate with all honesty and very strongly my call to the LTTE not to continue with their tactics of pretending to the world they are ready for peace while putting all sorts of obstacles to delay the process of negotiations,” she said. The government is expected to issue a statement on the peace process later today.
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