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Sri Lanka calls for talks with LTTE

The Sri Lankan government asked the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to return to talks even as it rejected the rebels call for a ceasefire.

The rebels earlier said their unilateral one-month ceasefire, which was been scheduled to expire Wednesday, would be extended by a month. The announcement came as government troops made considerable gains in the north.

The rebels must "come to the negotiating table along with a durable, concrete political solution," the government said in statement.

The government also accused the rebels of using the ceasefire as a ploy to influence international opinion, saying the insurgents should find a durable solution to the violence "instead of using the self-imposed cease-fire as a positive device of deceiving the international community."

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