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Truce monitors meet LTTE chief
By Nirupama Subramanian

COLOMBO, MARCH 7. The Norwegian head of the Sri Lanka ceasefire monitoring mission, Trond Furuhovde, returned to the capital today after a meeting with the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabakaran.

The TamilNet website reported that Mr. Prabakaran asked the three-member team to help speed up the opening of a land link with the Jaffna peninsula. Under the agreement, the Killinochci-Jaffna section of the main A-9 highway is to be reopened.

The delegation met the LTTE leader at Killin- ochchi on Wednesday.

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