Sri Lanka president asks Tamil Tigers to resume talks

Sri Lanka’s embattled president has called for direct peace talks with the top leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, saying he has appointed a group of experts to prepare an outline of a possible solution to the decades-old ethnic conflict.

“So what I say is, we will give them an outline, we can get the LTTE to sit and draft what they want,” Rajapakse said, calling the rebels by their formal name, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.