Peace envoys bid to defuse spiralling Sri Lanka tensions

Sri Lanka said today that Norwegian envoys will meet government and Tamil rebel leaders this week to try to revive the country’s peace process, amid spiralling violence and recriminations between the sides.

Erik Solheim, who negotiated Sri Lanka’s 2002 ceasefire and is now Norway’s international development minister, will arrive on Thursday to join his peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer who is to arrive a day earlier, spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.