ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව සහ එල්ටීටීඊ සංවිධානය අතර සාම සාකච්ඡා පැවති සමයේ නොර්වේ රාජ්‍යය එල්ටීටීඊයට මුදල් ලබා දුන්නා යැයි පසුගියදා ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ කරන ලද චෝදනාව සම්පූර්ණ අසත්‍ය බව හිටපු නෝර්වේජියානු සාම නියෝජිත එරික් සෝල්හයිම් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. ජනවාරි මාසයේ පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ජනාධිපතිවරණය ඉලක්ක කර ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මේ ආකාරයේ බොරු චෝදනා එල්ල කරන බවත් නොර්වේ සාම ක්‍රියාවලියේදී කළ කී දෑ සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ දැනුවත්ව සිටි බවද එරික් සොල්හයිම් එම නිවේදනයෙන් පවසයි එරික් සෝල්හයිම් චෝදනාවට පිලිතුරු දෙමින් නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් මෙසේය.. 17 November Paris, France Statement by Erik Solheim President MahindaRajapaksa launched a most surprising attack on me in a speech he made in Kurunegala on November 15th. I will not speculate as to what motivates such an attack, coming as it does at the start of the election campaign. Since I have no intention whatsoever of letting myself be dragged into the upcoming elections, I will thus only restate obvious facts well known to everyone - President Rajapaksa included: - Norway as the third, facilitating partyto the Sri Lankan peace process financed neither the LTTE in general nor its military operations in particular. - Norway made economic resources available to the LTTE peace secretariat in order to assist them in engaging more fully with the ongoing peace process. This included a radio transmitter. This, moreover, was done with the full knowledge of the Government of Sri Lanka under different leaders, including during the period when MahindaRajapaksa was prime minister. As with all our peace efforts in Sri Lanka, transparency with respect to the government in Colombo was total. - In the years before MahindaRajapaksa became President I met him dozens of times, and kept him fully informed of all the main elements of the peace process. As a government minister, and later as Prime Minister,MahindaRajapaksa was always fully supportive of our peace aims, and both encouraged Norway to continue and asked us to keep him informed of developments. We were and are grateful for that fruitful cooperation. - After the 2005 presidential election President Rajapaksa publicly asked Norway to continue in its role as facilitator of the peace process, and invited me personally to visit Sri Lanka.Thereafter President Rajapaksa made a number of political requests that he asked me to convey on his behalf to LTTE leader VelupillaiPrabhakaran. All these messages were duly communicated on to the LTTE leadership, and the killings ceased for a period. At the time the president also expressed his gratitude for this both to Norway and to myself personally. - When we last met in 2010, President Rajapaksa as a recognition of Norway´s peace efforts invited me to come back to Sri Lanka, visit the country and experience the peace. Further details on all these issues will be made public in spring 2015 in a book detailing the Norwegian peace engagement in Sri Lanka authored by UK journalist and author Mark Salter, in co-operation with Vidar Helgesen and myself. Regarding the enquiry initiated by the UN Human RightsCouncil in March 2014, I consider it the duty of everyone with relevant information - Sri Lankans and foreigners alike - to provide the best possible knowledge – and in full honesty – regarding war crimes allegedly committed by both the LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka. The United Nations can only function as the leading global organization if we all assist in implementing important decisions taken both by the Secretary General and the UN’s subsidiary bodies. Erik Solheim, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee
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