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Donors urge immediate signing of tsunami agreement, 14 June 2005 |
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"...many peace agreements are fragile and the
'peace' that they create is usually the extension of war by more
civilised means... A peace agreement is often an imperfect compromise
based on the state of play when the parties have reached a 'hurting
stalemate' or when the international community
can no longer stomach
a continuation of the crisis. A peace process, on the other hand, is
not so much what happens before an agreement is reached, rather what
happens after it... the post conflict phase crucially defines the
relationship between former antagonists..." - Walter Kemp, Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe, reviewing
'After
the Peace: resistance and reconciliation' by Robert L.Rothstein,
1999
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Text of Memorandum of Understanding
for Establishment of a Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure, 24
June 2005 |
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Chandrika’s Joint
Mechanism & Tamil Aspirations, - J. S. Tissainayagam, 1 June 2005
"After months of dialogue, mutual recrimination and
compromises, the joint mechanism for the distribution of
tsunami recovery
assistance awaits to be signed at the time this article is being
written. But even if the government was to initial it now, which would
be due only to pressure from the donor community and other international
actors, the disappointment among the Tamils due to the indifference and
niggardliness of the south will take a long time to assuage..." |
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President gives assurance to
consult Maha Sangha before signing Joint Mechanism: Fast unto death ends, ,
12 June 2005 |
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Government of Sri Lanka and LTTE sign
Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS)
Tamilnet, 24 June 2005
"...the legal status of P-TOMS is
similar to that of the
Cease Fire Agreement (CFA)
of February 2002. Both agreements were signed without explicit
passage through the legislative assembly of the Sri
Lankan state. This is indicative of the reality that the
Tamil national question can be resolved only through
extra-constitutional measures..."
 Norwegian facilitators, Friday noon reached Kilinochchi
with the signature of Mr. Mudiyanselage Sumanaweera Jayasinghe,
Secretary of Ministry of Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation, who
signed on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka in the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) on Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure
(P-TOMS) sources in Colombo said. Mr. Shanmugalingam Ranjan, Deputy Head
of Planning and Development Secretariat (PDS) on behalf of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) signed the MoU, after the
Government representative had signed the treaty, sources in Kilinochchi
said.
The parties signed three copies, sources said. One copy is kept by the
LTTE in Kilinochchi, one by the Government of Sri Lanka in Colombo and a
third copy is to be deposited in Oslo, sources added.
The signing of MoU strengthened
Norwegian
facilitation in the Peace Process, although critics warned that
implementation of MoU still can face formidable challenges.
The preamble of the pact states that the MoU is between the two parties,
the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE). Muslim community's interests are safeguarded by its
representation in the three tiered operational management structure of
the P-TOMS.
According to Political observers the legal status of P-TOMS is similar
to that of the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA)
of February 2002. Both agreements were signed without explicit
passage through the legislative assembly of the Sri Lankan state. This
is indicative of the reality that the Tamil national question can be
resolved only through extra-constitutional measures, observers pointed
out.
Article 7(b) of the MoU lists the creation of a "Regional Fund", the
custodian of which will be a multilateral agency appointed by both
parties, the GoSL and the LTTE. |
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