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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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