COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga told US Secretary of State Colin Powell that she would move to restart peace talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels after next week's New Year Holidays, one of her aides said on Friday.
In a telephone conversation with Powell, Kumaratunga also said the Sri Lankan military would stay out of a split in the Tigers, which mushroomed into fighting earlier on Friday, and that the split would not stand in the way of resuming talks.
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