Sri Lanka on Thursday claimed that India was ready to help it revive the peace process and said new Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse would visit New Delhi soon. India is ready to assist Sri Lanka in the way they wanted, Constitutional Affairs Minister D E W Gunasekara said without elaborating. The minister brushed aside a deadline set by the LTTE to resolve the island’s drawn-out ethnic conflict.
The Tigers said on Sunday that unless the government came up with a reasonable political settlement they would resume their struggle for independence. —PTI