COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Sunday it received an offer of talks with Tamil Tiger rebels two days ago and was keen to agree, but with fighting raging in the north the prospect of any imminent negotiations still seemed faint.
The government says it received a message from the Tigers through ceasefire monitors on Friday, hours before fighting erupted on the Jaffna peninsula at the island's northern tip. It has become the worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire.
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