"The LTTE's weapons and armed cadre are not protecting Tamil rights; they are prolonging this conflict and delaying the day when Tamils can live in truly peaceful conditions....the truly courageous thing for the LTTE to do was to give up violence and even the threat of violence and push for permanent peace now."

"To prevent future incidents at sea that could threaten the stability of the Cease Fire, the Sixth Round of Peace Talks in Japan agreed; �to work out effective arrangements for the operation of their naval units in keeping with existing treaty obligations.� The Parties also agreed that SLMM should; �undertake preventive measures to avoid serious incidents at sea and on land�. Recent days have seen strong reactions to isolated points of the Initial Discussion Paper that SLMM prepared as a basis for discussion on these arrangements. In that context SLMM would like to make the following clarifications..."

"It is learnt that the riot act had been read out to the LTTE's political advisor and chief negotiator, Anton Balasingham, who is a UK passport holder and a resident of London..."

"We already hear fools (and there are many of the educated variety among Tamils) declaring that we should swallow our pride and yield to the dictates of the world's sole super power, that the US would bomb the Vanni back to the stone age if the LTTE does not toe the line.

Any foreign force can have its way in a country only if its people are divided, politically obfuscated and are irredeemably sunk in political stupor. The creeping intellectual/political barrenness in the northeast should be stopped without further delay. LTTE officials too should stop making pedestrian, boringly predictable utterances on public forums and, instead, make every endeavour to stir the people's reason, intellectual curiosity, their sense of community, their imagination and their intellectual fervour. This is the only way forward to decisively break the vicious circle of political obfuscation by which our people are deeply but blissfully afflicted today.

America may be the mightiest nation on the earth today but that cannot detract an iota from our right to live with honour, dignity and freedom in the land of our fore bears. It cannot for a moment make us give up an inch of our lands to help India or the US Bloc stabilise the Sri Lankan state for the sole purpose of furthering their strategic and economic interests."

"...Participants express their regret over the absence of the LTTE from the Tokyo Conference...The process would need the expeditious development of a roadmap with clear milestones indicating the path towards a mutually acceptable final political solution... Agreement by the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE on a phased, balanced, and verifiable de-escalation, de-militarization and normalization process at an appropriate time in the context of arriving at a political settlement... The Conference requests the Government of Japan, as the host country, to convey the outcome of the Conference to the LTTE..."