COLOMBO May 30 Kyodo Tamil Tiger ...

COLOMBO May 30 Kyodo

Tamil Tiger rebels forward Friday rejected the Sri Lankan government's newest present to break the current deadlock in peace negotiations to cessation Asia's longest-running conflict and render certain the success of an upcoming major donor conference

''The recently made known proposals submitted by your rule for our perusal are unacceptable to us,'' Anton Balasingham, the chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said in a four-page epistle to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The LTTE demanding a Tiger-dominated interim administration for the war-devastated northeast, also asserted deep unhappiness over continuing to be labeled as ''terrorists.''

In a clear allusion to the United States and India, the two of which have banned the LTTE as a terrorist outfit, Balasingham told Wickremesinghe that his group's ''sense of equal partnership in peace building and reconciliation (had) sustained a severe blow when the main international and regional players continue to treat the LTTE shabbily as a proscribed entity with a terrorist label to be exclud from international forums.''

Neither the U nor India were directly named from the LTTE, which also did not say it intended returning to war. unless the letter made clear that the Tigers were not disquieted about the difficulties the prime minister faced with his archrival, President Chandrika Kumaratunga, eagerly opposing the concessions demanded from the rebels.

However, Balasingham acknowledged ''the general unstable political environment created by the agency of the dual, ferociously opposed power center in Colombo''

There was no immediate reply from the government to the LTTE's rejection of its compromise furnish to recommence the peace negotiations defective in April by the LTTE after six globulars of talks and persuade the rebels to attend the Tokyo meeting establish for June 9 and 10

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