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19:52, March 25, 2008 |
The Sri Lankan government said Tuesday that India's help was crucial in the island's battle against Tamil Tiger rebels.
"We appreciate the assistance of the Indian government in our battle to defeat terrorism," Keheliya Rambukwella, the government's defense spokesman and the Minister of Foreign Employment told reporters.
He said the Sri Lankan government was aware of the Indian government's domestic political compulsions of trying to look after the interests of the Tamil community.
The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is home to some 60 million Tamils. The Indian government has been urging Sri Lanka to end the island's conflict with a political solution.
Rambukwella's remarks came after a visit by the Sri Lankan Army chief Sarath Fonseka to India.
The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam described Fonseka's visit made in February as a historical blunder committed by the Indian government.
India sent its peace keeping force to the island in 1987 as part of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord.
But since the mid-1990s the Indian government has adopted a hands-off policy in Sri Lanka's conflict.
Source:Xinhua
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