The LTTE leadership is studyingthe fresh government agenda for future talks, Anton Balasinghamis reported to have told TamilNet yesterday.

He had declined to say when the LTTE would make its response.

The government’s agenda for talks was conveyed to LTTE political advisor Anton Balasingham by Norway’s special envoy Eric Solheim at a meeting held in London on Monday. Solheim was in Colombo last week on a five-day official visit and held discussions with leaders of both the government and the LTTE with regard to the possible resumption of the stalled peace process. A Solheim was accompanied by Norwegian Ambassador for Colombo Hans Brattskar at the three-hour long lunch-meeting at Balasingham’s residence hosted by his Australian-born wife Adale Anne. The LTTE has been demanding the resumption of talks only on the basis of its maiden blueprint for an interim self-rule, while President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s government has said that the discussion on an interim authority could be possible only in the context of a permanent solution to the bloody ethnic conflict.