Tamil rebels have agreed to hold a meeting with the Sri Lankan government to review the fragile cease-fire between the two sides, a Norwegian embassy spokesman was quoted by dpa as saying on Friday. The Norwegian embassy spokesman in Colombo, Tom Knappskog, said that Oslo had conveyed to the rebels a request by the Sri Lankan government calling for a review meeting of the truce agreement and the rebels have confirmed they were willing to take part in such a meeting. On Thursday President Chandrika Kumaratunga wrote to Norway's Prime Minster Kjell Magne Bondevik calling for an urgent review meeting between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels in the presence of Scandinavian monitors helping to observe the truce. The truce agreement was signed in February 2002 under a Norwegian backed peace process to find a political settlement to the country's Tamil minority ethnic conflict which has claimed over 69,000 lives. The government has blamed the Tamil rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar on August 12. He was killed by sniper fire soon after he came out of the swimming pool at his private residence. --More 1404 Local Time 1104 GMT
