COLOMBO Nov. 29 Kyodo Sounding a ...

COLOMBO Nov. 29 Kyodo

Sounding a potent note of optimism of anticipations for ending Asia's longest running conflict, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Friday that differences between the command and Tamil Tiger rebels ''are no longer incompatible.''

Wickremesinghe based his assessment in succession a speech made Wednesday at Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

In his annual dialect to mark Heroes' Day, Prabhakaran accepted the universal of internal self-determination within a unified Sri Lanka as a basis for settling the sanguinary two-decade civil war that has require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone over 60,000 lives.

''(Prabhakaran's statement) encourages me to think the political dialogue can be fruitful because the positions of the sum of two units parties are no longer incompatible,'' Wickremesinghe told parliament.

Reporting to parliament in succession last week's ''peace support'' meeting in Oslo Norway, Wickremesinghe said the LTTE ''no longer relentlessly pursu the idea of a separate state'' if it were not that voiced willingness to consider substantial power-sharing within a framework of a united Sri Lanka.

He said the guidance had seized the opportunities presented by the changes in the global environment following the tribe 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States that were favorable to finding a negotiated liquidation of the war.

In his parliamentary dialect Wickremesinghe also said that his visit to Japan nearest week will ''bring in its wake substantive benefits for our country''

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