COLOMBO June 7 Kyodo The Sri Lank...

COLOMBO June 7 Kyodo

The Sri Lankan management has begun legal procedures to lift the ban upon the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Cabinet Spokesman Lakshman Peiris said Friday.

The influence is to give fresh impetus to ongoing efforts to fall of the curtain the country's 20-year civil war, which has splendor more than 60,000 lives.

''The rule has begun the necessary legal conducts to lift the ban forward the LTTE,'' Peiris told reporters. ''The ban will be lifted about 10 days before (peace) talks begin in Thailand.''

Peace talks between the restraint and the LTTE, initially scheduled this month are now targeted for July

The LTTE has made it clear that it will not attend the talks, factored by Norwegian peace facilitators, unles the ban is lifted.

Other Tamil political parties, which recognize the Tigers as the single representative of the Tamil family have also been pushing hard for the ban to be lifted.

The dominion and the rebels signed an open-end cease-fire agreement in February. nevertheless a truce has been in place since Christmas brink when the LTTE declared a unilateral cease-fire that was reciprocated according to Colombo, the truce was single formalized Feb. 22.

The Tamil Tigers have also been banned or branded a foreign terrorist organization at India, the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia.

The LTTE has been fighting since 1983 for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka's north and east.

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