U.S. Urges Sri Lanka Settlement
The State Department on Monday urged India and Sri Lanka to successfully conclude what it called their “courageous and imaginative effort” to end the bloody struggle over the future of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
Whatever problems remain in achieving a solution to the conflict, “we hope they will be overcome,” department spokesman Charles Redman said.
He referred to reports that a settlement might be signed this week involving semi-autonomy for an enlarged Sri Lankan province in which most of the island’s Tamil minority live.
The United States has opposed the demand of Tamil extremists for partition of the island.
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