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Suggestion to Balasingham

By V.S. Sambandan

COLOMBO AUG. 23. Sri Lanka's former Foreign Affairs Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, on Friday suggested that the LTTE's chief negotiator, Anton S. Balasingham, pen a book on the latest peace process. He even came up with a title for the book — The End of Ambition.

Holding the view that there was a parting of ways over the LTTE's stance on participating in the Tokyo conference in June last, Mr. Kadirgamar said that Mr. Balasingham "is being put out to grass. He has a book to write. And he should write it. This time not the `Politics of Duplicity' (the title of a book published by Mr. Balasingham on the peace process with the earlier Chandrika Kumaratunga administration), but this time something on the lines of `The End of Ambition' or something''.Asked about his possible book, Mr. Kadirgamar told the Foreign Correspondents' Association of Sri Lanka: "My book is very staid. It will only be a chronological account. I was a bystander. Mr. Balasingham rose very high, not unfairly so''.Describing Mr. Balasingham as "the moderate of the lot", Mr. Kadirgamar said that "those who have emerged now are hardliners". His observations are against the backdrop of Mr. Balasingham's non-participation in the ongoing "internal legal discussions" being held by the LTTE in Paris.

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