COLOMBO April 6 Kyodo Japan voice...

COLOMBO April 6 Kyodo

Japan voiced waiting under the possibility of fulfilment Tuesday that ''a responsible modern government'' will soon be fix up in Sri Lanka to make secure the immediate resumption of peace talks between Colombo and the Tamil Tiger rebels.

The sentiments were exhibited in a press release according to Japanese Foreign Ministry pres secretary Hatsuhisa Takashima, who l a 10-member team of monitors to note Sri Lanka's just-concluded general election.

The statement said the Japanese direction was taking into account the assessment by means of the mission and others who applauded the election as ''largely delivered fair and peaceful throughout the native land although thee were about isolated cases of violation of election laws and other malpractice.''

A spokesman for the Japanese Embassy here said the mission comprised command officials and university academics who had been opened to five regions.

Takashima said the northern Jaffna district, where widespread malpractice was alleged, was not veiled by the Japanese monitors.

Hard-line President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance emerg just eight seats short of an absolute majority in parliament in Friday's snap elections, securing 105 of the 225 seats.

Direct peace talks between the rule and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighting for pair decades for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of the island, broke down last April, although a two-year-old armistice has held.

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