COLOMBO: Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga has slammed her embattled nation's peace broker Norway and financial backer Japan for overstepping their brief as they struggled to revive a stalled peace bid.
Kumaratunga said Norway was called in as a “facilitator” in bringing the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the negotiating table, but not to be a “mediator or an arbitrator”.
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