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By Nirupama Subramanian
``Time is clearly important, but the most important thing is to agree on an agenda for talks,'' Mr. Helgesen, who arrived here on Saturday to work out details for the talks, said in an interview to a private television channel. ``The aim is to bring the two parties to the table as soon as possible, but if you rush it and bring them to the table with no clear agenda, I think that would be detrimental,'' he said. ``We are most interested in the quality of the agenda than in the actual timing,'' he said. The Sunday Times newspaper said that Norway, the official facilitator of the peace process, had sent out a questionnaire to the LTTE and the Government about the agenda for the talks and its format. The questions include the relationship between talks on an interim administration and the process towards a permanent settlement of the ethnic conflict, how often they would meet and the size of the delegation. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has flown in 15 more members to reinforce its supervision of the ceasefire between the LTTE and the Government. The need for more members arose when the three-month-old ceasefire experienced a few hiccups following incidents between the two sides at sea.
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