Chandrika to visit New Delhi ahead of deal with Tigers

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga is all set to visit India next week, ahead of entering into a controversial tsunami aid-sharing d...

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga is all set to visit India next week, ahead of entering into a controversial tsunami aid-sharing deal with Tamil Tiger rebels.

Kumaratunga will travel to New Delhi for talks with Indian leaders on Thursday, the Sunday Times newspaper said.

The same visit had been put-off twice although it was never officially announced.

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Earlier, former US President, Bill clinton had mounted pressure on all Sri Lankan politicians to support kumaratunga’s controversial move.

Kumaratunga was “very committed” to establishing the proposed “joint administrative machinery’, her office statement said after her talks with Clinton, yesterday.

Kumaratunga is facing opposition from the Tamil tigers and also from her own coalition partner, the Marxist JVP, which has threatened to quit.

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