A special meeting on the situation in Sri Lanka was convened at the residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Wednesday night. At the end of the urgent meeting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying: "We are very unhappy at the continued killing of innocent Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. These killings must stop."
The meeting was attended by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A K Antony, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon.
"The Sri Lankan government has a responsibility to protect its own citizens. And the LTTE must stop holding civilians hostage," Mukherjee said.
"There is no military solution to this ongoing humanitarian crisis, and all concerned should recognise this fact," he said reiterating government's view that "the only lasting solution will come from political efforts to address the real concerns of the Tamil people, giving them lives of dignity within the Sri Lankan mainstream".
"India will work to achieve this goal, and will do all it can to also ameliorate the humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict," he said.
Mukherjee said he will be speaking to many of his counterparts around the world to join India in this effort.
The meeting was convened amid mounting pressure from Tamil Nadu parties on the Centre to stop war in Sri Lanka, the report further said.
Meanwhile, sources in Colombo said Basil Rajapaksa, the brother and adviser of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was scheduled to leave for India shortly as a special envoy to discuss the humanitarian assistance.
It is accused that India is running a proxy war in the island of Sri Lanka along with Colombo government against Tamil national aspirations
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