Hr. formand, vi håbede alle, at Genève-forhandlingerne i februar med deltagelse af den srilankanske regering og LTTE kunne have været de første skridt på vejen mod fred, men som bekendt trak de tamilske tigre sig ud af den anden forhandlingsrunde.
. Mr President, we all hoped that the talks held in Geneva in February involving the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE might have been the beginning of a road towards peace, only for the Tamil Tigers, as we all know, to pull out of the second round of the negotiations.